Garrison House is an intact midcentury modern house from 1956, cedar and stone under a flat roof with cantilevered eaves and walls of glass. The original wood paneling and built-ins survive, along with the copper hood over the wood-burning fireplace.

The Obama Presidential Center is a museum and civic campus that occupies the north end of Jackson Park. The tower is concrete clad in New Hampshire granite, with canted corners and a concrete letter screen at the top. The campus also holds a forum, a library branch, and a gymnasium.

The Chicago Park District relocated from downtown to a former railyard in Brighton Park. A two-story circular building, bisected by a path and clad in aluminum sunscreens. Interior brick walls use salvaged Chicago common brick in a pixelated relief pattern.

A 15-story mixed-use tower at the south end of downtown Evanston, its residential mass bent into a shallow S-curve shaped by the street grid and the rail line. A three-story brick base holds street retail and a planted green roof terrace, with the tower lifted above on slender columns.