Gallery: Radical Visions of Chicago's Future Skyline

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    Port Urbanism's The Big Shift proposes moving Lake Shore Drive eastward and, through landfill and tunneling, creating about 300 acres for new development and public space.
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    Port Urbanism's The Big Shift proposes moving Lake Shore Drive eastward and, through landfill and tunneling, creating about 300 acres for new development and public space.
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    Port Urbanism's The Big Shift proposes moving Lake Shore Drive eastward and, through landfill and tunneling, creating about 300 acres for new development and public space.
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    Logistical Ecologies by Hinterlands Urbanism and Landscape. Residential and industrial uses would be combined to promote activity and re-use aging infrastructure.
  • JGMA's proposal for a Wellness Center in Humboldt Park part of David Brown's The Available City.
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    JGMA's proposal for a Wellness Center in Humboldt Park; part of David Brown's The Available City.
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    Multiple schemes for The Available City.
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    UrbanLab's Filter Island creates a colorful new public park from natural filters for the Chicago River.
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    Weathers' Second Sun, a park that responds to various forms of energy
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    Late Entry to the Chicago Public Library Competition, by Design With Company. One building would contain several structures, with styles and landmarks from various time periods.
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    Model (left) and drawing (right) for The High LIfe by SOM and CAMESgibson. Each cantilevered section would be developed as its own neighborhood.
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    David Schalliol
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    Logistical Ecologies by Hinterlands Urbanism and Landscape
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    David Brown
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    The Available City envisions collective uses for Chicago's thousands of empty lots
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