Location
11045 S. Wentworth, Chicago, IL 60628  Map
Owner
Mercy Housing Lakefront
Architect
Harley Ellis Devereaux
Wentworth Commons is a 4-story, 65,800 sf apartment building with 51 units and supportive services on the first floor. The building opened in June 2005, was designed to be green from its initiation, and is seeking LEED® Certification. Detailed case studies are available here and [...]

Location
10204 S. Central Park, Chicago, IL 60655 Map
Owner
St. Xavier University
Architect
Solomon Cordwell Buenz
Rubloff Hall is a new 5-story, 37,000 sf residence hall on the campus of St. Xavier University seeking LEED® Silver certification. The 26 unit, 87 bed building is opening to students this month and is the third of a series of similar dormitories recently [...]

Location
1729 W. Potomac, Chicago, IL 60622 Map
Owner
HN Builders
Architect
Norsman Architects
The Norsman Residence is another example of a higher-budget single family home with a carefully considered green and design sense. The project is new construction on a substandard Chicago lot (23.5’ x 100’). It includes many of the features we are increasingly seeing for these semi-demonstration projects, [...]

Location
1322 N. Clybourn, Chicago IL 60610, Map
Owner
Rada Development
Architect
Rada Architects
Clybourn Point is a four-story mixed-use building with six residential units and a first-floor commercial space. This is one of the smallest projects currently seeking LEED® certification (goal of LEED® Silver) in Chicago, and is owned by a first-time developer. Many smaller green residential projects are owned [...]

Location
5000 S. Indiana, Chicago IL 60615, Map
Owner
Affordable Housing Preservation Foundation
Architect
Piekarz Associates PC
Washington Park SRO is a renovation of a 50-year old, 5-story, 200 unit SRO and recreational facility into a 100% affordable 63 unit SRO with plans for a future health club. Prior to beginning this renovation, the building sat vacant for two years after [...]

Location
1825 W. Wabansia, Chicago, IL 60622 Map
Owner
Frank and Lisa Mauceri
Smog Veil Records
Architect
Wilkinson Blender Architecture
The Mauceri Residence is a 2-story, 5,600 sf renovation of an existing masonry building into a live/work single family home. This is one of several higher-budget residential projects demonstrating many unusual green elements, including 3 Aerotecture wind turbines, 30 solar electric panels, [...]