Architecture

The Madison diocese hopes to open a new cathedral by late 2025.

Milwaukee’s skyline will be a little brighter during the holidays this year. The Milwaukee Art Museum on Thursday unveiled a new lighting system under its signature wings — known as the Burke Brise Soleil — which bathes them in a spectrum of color. During a lighting ceremony, Milwaukee Art Museum director Marcelle Polednik said the…

In 1916, before Frank Lloyd Wright traveled to Japan to oversee construction of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, he designed a home in Milwaukee for an alderman and his family. Now, more than 100 years later, that home is for sale for only the second time in its history, complete with many of its original…

Architect Marion Clendenen-Acosta fondly remembers visiting the Mitchell Park Domes with her family as a child. This month, she returned to the domes once again — but to receive Wisconsin’s most prestigious architecture award from the state society of the American Institute of Architects. The award recognizes an architect’s contributions to the profession. In 2000,…

A community urban garden in the heart of Milwaukee. One of the first Episcopal cathedrals in the nation, celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. A century-old letterpress print shop. The Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, built in the Richardson Romanesque Revival architectural style. These, and many other iconic and historic buildings and landmarks across the…

A boundary-stretching architect’s final project rises up in a wedge of steel and glass in an unexpected location — a stretch of former farm field in the village of Somers. The floor-to-ceiling windows are framed by bright red trusses. Black steel in a lattice pattern overlays the windows. All the bolts and welded joints are…

A fishing pier along Monona Terrace and an underpass for cyclists and pedestrians are among the tweaks to a design firm’s proposal to revamp the shoreline along Madison’s Lake Monona. Architects with the Denver-based design firm Sasaki discussed their latest proposals during a public meeting this week. The suggested changes include adding a fishing pier…

The Mulva Cultural Center in De Pere is entering a new phase of construction, with its footings poured and a tower crane coming to the site in January It’ll be the first complex of its kind in northeast Wisconsin, said CEO Mike Van Asten. It’s rare for national exhibitions to come to Wisconsin cities other…

“It’s like walking into a gem.” That’s how Cortney Anderson Kramer described the texture of the space at Wisconsin’s Dickeyville Grotto. “When you go there, it’s built up at a Catholic church. It is a monument to patriotism as well as Catholicism. And it is a sort of architectural grotto shrine, that is encrusted with…

A historic mansion in Merrill that’s set to be demolished will be preserved, in a way, with detailed digital scans that will allow it to be recreated in virtual reality. The T.B. Scott Mansion was built in the late 19th century by a lumber baron and onetime state senator who was Merrill’s first mayor. When…