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NBC Chicago is reporting on the start of planned demolition work for the Thompson Center in advance of a $280 million makeover that will turn the famed Helmut Jahn-designed building into a new office space for Google for 2026. Work will cover the exterior glass curtain facade and interior atrium...

'Monument with Standing Beast' — nicknamed "Snoopy in a Blender" — has stood in front of the former state office building for decades. But Google, the building's new owner, has begun an extensive renovation.

Monument with Standing Beast, which lives outside the Thompson Center in the Chicago Loop, is moving to state facility, JB Pritzker's office said.

The sculpture has been in place for the last 40 years! Time for a move. -Dave and Kim

With its recent $105 million purchase of the State of Illinois Center in downtown Chicago, the tech giant reimagines the future for an unappreciated government complex.

Design Miami cancels its upcoming Paris fair due to security concerns, a sculpture outside the Thompson Center gets the boot, and more.

Plus, the U.K.'s largest ever repatriation of colonial artifacts, and the rise of Singapore as an art hub.

With the state selling the building where it has stood for nearly four decades, “Monument with Standing Beast” will have to move to a new location.

Copy Every city has its odd building. Paris has Centre Pompidou. London –Lloyd’s of London. New York –the Guggenheim. Naturally, Chicago, the architectural capital of the world, has one too. Here it is –James R. Thompson Center, named so in honor of four-term Illinois Republican Governor (1977-91) who was brave enough to get it built in 1985. Home to offices of the Illinois state government the building is unlike anything you have ever seen before. Unusually shaped and brightly clad in ...