Location
3018 W. Armitage, Chicago, IL 60647  Map
Developer
The Sanders Company
Architect
Swiss Design Group

Green Armitage is a new five-story residential building, with a first-floor commercial space and eight 1200-1300 sf residential units above. The project has been under the eye of Chicago green building fans for a while, but appears to be finally off the ground (nearly literally). This [...]

Location
1460 N. Halsted, Chicago, IL 60642  Map
Developer
Structured Development
Architect
Valerio Dewalt Train
Blackhawk/Halsted is a new 150,00 sf four story speculative retail and office buiding (two floors of each) with an adjacent seven level parking garage. The project is in the already-crazy North/Halsted/Clbyourn corridor, just north of the new British School and across the street from the soon-to-be-razed [...]

Location
2400 Compass Road, Glenview, IL 60026  Map
Owner
Glenview Park District
Architect
Wight & Company
The Evelyn Pease Tyner Interpretive Center is the public gateway to the 32-acre Air Station Prairie in Glenview.  The 3000 square-foot Tyner Center educates visitors about the history and ecology of the local Illinois prairie ecosystem, while also serving as a showcase for the cutting [...]

Location
3905 N. Janssen, Chicago, IL 60613 Map
There’s no architect on this project, as it’s an un-project: Chicago’s first residential deconstruction, currently underway on a 2-story home at 3905 N. Janssen. Deconstruction is the process of carefully dismantling a building in order to salvage components for reuse, as opposed to demolition, where buildings are smashed with [...]

Location
28 N. Clark, Chicago, IL 60602  Map
Owner
Flashpoint Academy
Architect
Valerio Dewalt Train Associates
Flashpoint Academy is a new media arts and sciences school occupying 58,000 sf on two floors (plus a small storefront street-level space) in the Burnham Center (aka 111 W. Washington). The two-year school will offer four areas of study: cinema, recording arts, gaming and animation [...]

Location
1110 W. Belden, Chicago, IL 60614  Map
Owner
DePaul University
Architect
Antunovich Associates
The Andrew J. McGowan Science Building is a new 5-story, 130,000 sf academic building to be located immediately south of the existing William G. McGowan science building which opened at DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus in 1998. McGowan South will house the DePaul Chemistry Department and accomodate the [...]