• LEVER Architecture evokes early moving picture technology with expansion of Universal Studios

    LEVER Architecture evokes early moving picture technology with expansion of Universal Studios

    In Universal City—the neighborhood-sized home of Universal Pictures’s corporate campus, production lots, and theme park—LEVER Architecture has designed two new buildings: The Commons and One Universal. The former, an employee amenity space, evokes early moving picture technology through its circular structure and lenticular shade screen of thin aluminum tubes. Its companion, One Universal, is a more conventional

  • Pelli Clarke & Partners crafts tapered glass crown for Salesforce tower in Chicago

    Wolf Point, a four-acre site located at the intersection of the Chicago River’s three forks masterplanned by Pelli Clarke & Partners, is finally complete after a 15-year development saga. The final component of the project wrapped up construction late last year; it is a 57-story office tower leased to Salesforce and Kirkland Ellis, a corporate law firm.

    Pelli Clarke & Partners crafts tapered glass crown for Salesforce tower in Chicago