Architecture

The Eads Bridge was completed 150 years ago this July. It connects East St. Louis and the City of St. Louis.

PGAV is behind the design of the St. Louis Aquarium and the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame & Museum. The firm also designed the world’s largest aquarium, SeaWorld Abu Dhabi, which opened last year.

The Washington Theater in Quincy was home to vaudeville acts and later a movie theater before it shuttered in the 1980s. Now, an effort is underway to restore the theater to its former glory.

The Pulitzer Foundation’s Urban Archaeology exhibition notes the red brick heritage of St. Louis and explores how the city's architecture reflects its social and political history.

Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska are part of an emerging “extreme heat belt” that could deliver more scorching days within 30 years. So far, there’s no unified plan to make our dwellings safe in the dangerously high temperatures to come.

Hugh Ferriss was a highly regarded architectural illustrator from St. Louis. His distinct moody nighttime illustrations of skyscrapers and suspension bridges inspired the backdrops of many fictional worlds like Gotham City, Metropolis and Emerald City.

The historical society in Belleville, Illinois, and other preservationists are discouraged by the city’s demolition of neglected landmark homes and other buildings.

A very private St. Louis family commissioned a very public mausoleum to eventually house eight loved ones. Both the cemetery and the mausoleum architect are mum on the family’s identity, but clues abound.

The Missouri Botanical Garden will open its new $94 million visitors center Saturday after two years of construction. Guests will be treated to a center that aims to bring nature indoors.

On June 12, Larry Giles died at the age of 73 after a struggle with leukemia. He was known as decent, honest and tough. On top of that, Giles was, as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently put it, “the man who saved St. Louis.”