Owner: Doug Sandberg
Architect: Sandberg Architecture, http://parkhouseconstruction.blogspot.com
Building Use: Single-family home
Floor Area: 2600 square feet, including basement & garage
Number of Floors: 2 + basement/garage split level
6728 North Seeley Avenue, Chicago, IL 60645
By Katherine Darnstadt
“No way!”
That was the initial response from architect Doug Sandberg when his wife Catherine first mentioned an available 18-foot-wide infill lot as the [...]

Developer: McCaffery Interests
Architect: Antunovich Associates
MEP Engineer: Lehman Design
Structural Engineer: Matsen Ford
Civil Engineer: Space Co.
General Contractor: W.E. O’Neil Construction Company
Commissioning Agent and LEED Consultant: AECOM
Landscape Architect: Wolff Landscape Architecture
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By David Eldridge and Azmina Alimohd
The Morgan at Loyola Station is a newly constructed residential building located at Arthur Street and Sheridan Road near the Loyola University campus. McCaffery Interests has a [...]

By Susan D. Turner, AIA, PMP, LEED AP
Developer: Matt Phillips, Integrated Design Development Group LLC (IDG)
Architect: Larry Booth, Booth Hanson (Chicago)
HVAC Consultants: Deirdre McDaniel, WMA Engineering (Chicago)
Interior Design Bonnie Mason, Interior Design Associates (Nashville)
Estimated Cost: $ 150,000,000
Designed in 1924 by Jarvis Hunt, the former Lake Shore Athletic Club is a twenty story, 370,000 square-foot Beaux Arts building, built of masonry [...]

By Kathleen Johnson
When a large design firm with sustainable values needs a new home, it’s not going to move into just any typical office space. The design has to make sense on every level, and celebrate the talents of the firm. This past January HOK moved into such a space, building out 27,700 [...]

By Susan Turner
One of the purposes of establishing a green rating system such as LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is to reduce the consumption of the earth’s resources. Historic buildings are one of the largest repositories of embodied energy. This project, located at 2620 W. Washington, retains the embodied energy of the entire [...]

By Susan Turner
Architect Jessie McGrath and developer Sylvan Shank, like many others in their field, have gotten into the spirit of Chicago’s green movement, beginning restoration of a project located on 1927 N. Honore. The building, constructed in 1907, was developed during the Chicago’s Garden Movement (c1900-1941), and is located on a street with many [...]