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Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago / Renzo Piano

Completed in 2009 in Chicago, United States. Images by Nic Leoux. The new Modern Wing is being built between Michigan Avenue and Columbus Drive, at the northeast corner of the block the Art Institute of Chicago...

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2009

Chicago, Illinois, United States

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