Location
555 W. Harrison, Chicago,IL 60607 Map
Owner
Cook County, IL
Architect
Campbell Tiu Campbell
(Architect of Record)
Booth Hansen (Design)

Photography
Mark Ballogg
The Cook County Domestic Violence Courthouse is a 4-story, 169,000 sf building housing 10 courtrooms, social services, childcare facilities, and public agency office space. The building opened in October 2005 and is seeking LEED® Silver certification. It is a replacement [...]

Location
3656 N. Halsted, Chicago, IL 60657 Map
Owner
Center on Halsted
Architect
Gensler

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Center on Halsted is a 3-story, 175,000 sf community center serving Chicago’s LGBT community with offices and meeting space, a gymnasium, and a small performance space. A Whole Foods supermarket is on the first floor and there are two levels of underground parking. Construction began [...]

Location
457 N. Sacramento, Chicago, IL 60612 Map
Owner
Christy Webber Landscapes
Architect
Farr Associates

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Greenworks is a new 18,000 sf 1-story office and industrial building for Christy Webber, one of Chicago’s leading landscape contractors. In addition to front-office space, the building includes tool maintenance and storage areas, a rooftop greenhouse, and outdoor truck and landscape storage [...]

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, [...]