The Gwen: How the Carved Relief Frame Is Actually Made
A hotel on North Michigan Avenue in a 1920s building with a sculpted limestone facade and an upper terrace.
The Peninsula Chicago: Photographing Pale, Tonal Luxury
A luxury hotel a block from the Magnificent Mile, with pale tonal interiors, a terrace and high guest floors.
The Ritz-Carlton Chicago: Field Notes on a Sealed Ballroom
A hotel occupying upper floors above Michigan Avenue, with interior ballrooms and high-level guest rooms.
The Blackstone: Working a Building With Two Vocabularies
A 1910 Beaux-Arts hotel on South Michigan Avenue, with period public rooms and contemporary renovated interiors.
Virgin Hotels Chicago: A Venue of Small Rooms Rather Than Large Ones
A hotel in a 1928 Loop office building, with a series of smaller event spaces and a rooftop bar.
The Robey: How Light Moves Through a Narrow Tower
A 1929 Art Deco tower at the Wicker Park six-corners junction, with upper-floor rooms and a rooftop.
The Godfrey Chicago: What a Retractable Roof Actually Changes
A contemporary hotel in River North with a rooftop venue that can be enclosed or opened to the sky.
The Langham Chicago: Photographing Inside a Modernist Building
A hotel occupying a Mies van der Rohe riverfront tower, with clean-lined interiors and a terrace on the Chicago River.
The Four Seasons Chicago: Four Ways Out of the Vertical Venue Problem
A hotel occupying upper floors of a tower above the Magnificent Mile, with function rooms and guest floors on separate levels.
The Waldorf Astoria Chicago: A Walled Courtyard in a City
A hotel in Chicago's Gold Coast with a private walled entrance courtyard and French-influenced interiors.
