Visionary, dead of cancer at age 86, created the distinctive Lakeshore East neighborhood and mentored new generations of architects and real estate professionals in the city. p>

Concrete expert had key roles in delivering Chicago's Water Tower Place and other landmark projects, and promoted minority hiring on company crews.

Gerald D. Hines, founder and chairman of the global real estate firm Hines, died Sunday, Aug. 23 at age 95.

Known as far back as the mid-1960s for a radical notion that the architect of the future would be a manager of many disciplines—among them engineering, psychology, politics, economics, ecology, art and technology— the industry pioneer died May 2 from complications from COVID-19 and congestive heart failure.

Modernist architect Henry N. Cobb, a founding partner of Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners, known to friends as Harry, died March 2, 2020, one month before he would have turned 94.

Srinivasa “Hal” Iyengar, an eminent structural engineer known for innovative solutions for difficult projects, such as the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum in Spain, died July 4 in Fort Myers, Fla., after a battle with Parkinson’s and heart disease. He was 85 years old.