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See Milwaukee’s 2025 Mayor’s Design Awards Winners

From pavement turned to art to 44-story buildings, awards recognize the best of Milwaukee design.

Open House Scheduled On Revised Plans To Replace I-794

WisDOT expected to show four options, including a boulevard option.

UWM Students Design A Future Without I-794

Students envision two options for developing area around freeway-to-boulevard conversion.

Converting 794 To Boulevard Could Yield 3,000 Housing Units, $1.1 Billion in Development

New analysis from urban planner Larry Witzling explores impact of overhauling downtown freeway.

Federal Grant Boosting Energy Efficient Affordable Housing Program

$3.4 million grant supports program building new affordable homes with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.

See the 2024 Mayor’s Design Awards Winners

20 projects big and small are named best of the best in Milwaukee design

Sculpture Milwaukee Returns For 7th Year

Featuring 7 artists from across the globe, 39 works, and a meditation on Michael Jackson.

Northwestern Mutual Wins Key Vote To Close Cass Street

But not without derision, and the suggestion to create an open-air passageway for the public.

See The 2023 Mayor’s Design Awards Winners

20 winners span the city, represent the best of Milwaukee architecture and design.

Sculpture Milwaukee Adding Spring Exhibit Inside The Avenue

Exhibit by area colleges in downtown complex will complement main sculpture event.

Gallery Night MKE Celebrates Creativity — at 50+ locations — April 21 & 22

2022 Mayor’s Design Awards Announced

25 projects cover entire city, range from big to small.

Mayor Barrett to Announce Recipients of the 2021 Mayors Design Awards Monday, June 7

City Could Require Laser Scanning of Buildings Slated for Demolition

Effort would create a database of lost buildings.

New Art Installation in Cathedral Square Park

Massimals MKE will be up through the spring.

Public Museum, Betty Brinn to Share New Facility

Not a merger but housing natural history and children's museums in one brand new facility.

Demolition Underway for Adams Hotel

Plus: DCD gets new leadership team

Area Resident Plans Hopkins St. Project

Charles McCoy will purchase, redevelop commercial building in Amani neighborhood.

2019 Mayor’s Design Awards Recipients

Here are winners of annual awards for the best in Milwaukee design.

Visions of the Harbor District’s Future

UWM students examine housing, parks, a hotel, school and more for S. Water St.

Frank Lloyd Wright House B

One of his six American System-Built homes on Burnham. Quite a history. Quite a home.

2018 Mayor’s Design Award Recipients

Twenty projects honored, ranging from new skyscraper to two new parks.

County Parks To Seek State Grant to Fund Ravine Road Bridge Project

The goal of the project is to preserve the historical character of Lake Park by replacing the bridge with a structure that closely matches its original architecture and design.

Northwestern Mutual Plaza Is a Triumph

Gardens and landscaping for NM Tower and Commons create a strikingly urban campus.

Mayor’s Design Awards All Over Map

Big, little, new or renovated, award winners in 13 of 15 aldermanic districts.

New Park Will Be Really Green

New Fondy 'storm-water park' will be sustainable, eco-friendly... and green.

Big Plans for West Side Unveiled

Plan envisions public market and major grocery, movie theater and indoor sports complex.

Does Anyone Oppose Bus Rapid Transit?

The idea is very unsexy, yet has gained amazingly wide support.

Lake Park Bridge Work Group Announced

Will it be repaired, torn down or replaced? A public meeting will discuss on May 17.

Milwaukee Arts Barge Idea Floated

Could the barge become a vibrant public space for events and community connections?

How to Balance Architecture and Ego

Acclaimed architect and Marcus Prize winner Joshua Prince-Ramus does a TED-type talk.

The Design Competition That Wasn’t

Lakefront Gateway competition picked a team, not a design. So what will that mean for the lakefront?

The Return of Peter Park

Now a top consultant, the former city planner says Milwaukee's 20-year plan was done in a decade.

Heart Haus Aims to Remake World

The non-profit experiment in sustainable living is built on ashes of the failed Sweet Water Organics.

Korb Tredo Architects Principals to Pursue New Opportunities

Jeff Tredo, co-founder of the award-winning firm, is departing with his core clients and design team to pursue other opportunities in the greater Milwaukee area.

Who Will Replace Paul Jakubovich?

Ald. Bauman is pushing for prompt action to replace the longtime historic preservation head, who died last month.

Arts Projects Coming to Wisconsin Avenue

Greater Milwaukee Committee bringing two major art installations to Downtown and the Beer Line Bicycle Trail.

Big Ideas for Bronzeville?

Loft apartments, a jazz club and multi-story hotel were among the development ideas for at a brainstorming session.

Bob Greenstreet’s Study in Symmetry

The UWM architect and city insider paid full price for his splendid home on the East Side's gold coast.