News & Press
2025
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The Architect’s Newspaper, “Future Firm helps expand Chicago’s South Side Community Art Center”
- Black Art in America, “South Side Community Art Center Announces Plans for $15M Renovation and Expansion
2024
- Chicago Sun Times, “Art Institute of Chicago opens its first gallery devoted solely to Korean art”
- Architect's Newspaper, "Chicago-based Future Firm puts people first”
- Chicago Sun-Times, “Community space South Side Sanctuary opens in ‘heart’ of Bronzeville”
- Fox32, “South Side Sanctuary Opens in Bronzeville”
- Beyond the Surface, “Ann Lui | Future of Design” (podcast)
- The Architectural League, I Would Prefer Not To, “Future Firm” (podcast)
- The Ohio State University, “Architecture in the Open City: Ann Lui + Chicago”
2023
- Architect's Newspaper, "AN Interior’s Top 50 Architects and Designers of 2023"
- Chicago Magazine, "How Justice of the Pies Made Its New Shop Accessible"
- Eater, “Superstar Baker Maya-Camille Broussard's Justice of the Pies to Debut Friday“
- Dwell, “Chicago Is Running a Design Contest to Create Infill Housing—Here’s a First Look at Submissions”
- Dwell, “Chicago Calls On the World’s Best to Design Infill Housing on Its Thousands of Empty Lots”
- Architect’s Newspaper, “An exhibition by Himali Singh Soin at the Art Institute of Chicago situates viewers within mythic catastrophes”
- Architect’s Newspaper, “Architects and designers share the best interior materials they’re currently using”
2022
- Architect’s Newspaper, “Future Firm designs a stylish eatery for Chicago’s South Side Bronzeville neighborhood“
- Architect Magazine, “Inside Out: Cultivating a Destination for Community, Local Art, and, of Course, Good Wine“
- Hospitality Design, “Bronzeville Winery Opens in Chicago”
- NewCity, “Design 50 2022: The Fifty People Who Shape Chicago | Ann Lui and Craig Reschke”
- Wallpaper*, “Chicago’s Future Firm aims to spearhead change”
- Dwell, “Here’s How We Fix the Hole in the Middle of the Housing Market”
2021
- Fast Company, “The middle class is being crushed by the housing crisis—and a solution is hiding in plain sight”
- Wallpaper*, “Hem House proposes new Chicago housing solution”
- Azure Magazine, “How Future Firm Finds Inspiration in the ‘Messy Ecology’ of Cities"
- The Republic, “Midnight light: Sears/Cummins building aims to be overnight sensation"
- Wallpaper*, "Architects create Indiana installations as Exhibit Columbus opens”
- Architect’s Newspaper, “Future Firm imbues a Chicago store and community space with flexible furniture”
- Sci-Arc Channel, “On Futures: Future Firm”
2020
- ArchDaily, “Graham Foundation Announces 2020 Individual Grants”
- Wallpaper, “Redesigning The Silver Room community space in Chicago”
- Architect’s Newspaper, “Exhibit Columbus reveals 2020–2021 curatorial theme and Miller Prize recipients”
- NewCity, “Design 50: Who Shapes Chicago”
- Area (Italy), “A new generation of architects paint a diverse community practicing in Chicago
2019
- Architect Magazine, “In Planning Their 'Future Firm,' Future Firm was Born”
- Archinect, “Meet Future Firm, the Chicago-Based Practice Calling on Architects to Visualize Vibrant New Futures”
- Chicago Magazine, “Who’s Got Next?: The Activist Architect”
- Architect Magazine, “Next Progressives: Future Firm”
2018
2017
- Next City, “Chicago Firm Calls for Creating Office of the Public Architect”
- The Architect’s Newspaper, “The Night Gallery projects architectural visualizations into the streets of Chicago”
- Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, City of Chicago. IncentOvate Grant (with Chicago Architecture Foundation)
- Times Square Alliance with the Urban Design Forum. Times Square Valentine, Invited Finalist
2016
- Archdaily, “Manhattanisms: 30 Firms Envision New York City's Future Through Drawings and Models”
- DNAInfo, “Alleys Transformed Into Main Streets: Could it Happen?”
- WGN, “Re-imagining City Garages”
- Chicago Architect, “Future Firm Seeks Balance Between Innovative and Practical”
- Oslo Architecture Triennale, After Belonging. Honorable Mention for “Cooperative Arctic Hedge Fund”
2015—Before
- Architectural Record, “Exhibition Review: Designing a Presidential Legacy”
- Chicago Prize, Chicago Architectural Club. Honorable Mention for “Obama Drone Aviary”
- Architizer, “Step Right Up to This Traveling Architectural Circus“
- ArchDaily, “Crowdfunding: Transformed Truck To Take Art & Architecture on the Road“
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