Maria Pellot, Associate Principal / Design Director at UrbanWorks, was named one of “10 Contemporary Female U.S. Architects Who are Making a Difference” by Commercial Cafe! Maria is being celebrated as an architect and planner for leaving her mark on the urban landscape of America, among other notable colleagues Elizabeth Diller, Merrill Elam, Sheila Kennedy, Monica Ponce de Leon, and Laurinda Hope Spear. Congratulations Maria! Read more
UrbanWorks’ A Safe Haven: Affordable Veterans Housing received a 2017 AIA Chicago Design Excellence Award, Citation of Merit. The Design Excellence Awards is an “annual awards program which honors the best work by Chicago architecture firms found worldwide.” In 2017, Awards were given in four categories; the Distinguished Building Award, for which A Safe Haven: Affordable Veterans Housing received a Citation of Merit; the Interior Architecture Award; the Divine Detail Award; and the Ten-Year Award. Congrats to all the other winners!
UrbanWorks was honored to receive an Award of Merit from the Association of Licensed Architects Design Awards Program for our ICE CADE: Center for Architecture, Design + Education concept, a concept for the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s new welcome center, headquarters for the Council on Tall Buildings, high school, and youth programs. This ALA Awards competition celebrates designs and designers from all around the country in eight categories. The ICE CADE was submitted in the Unbuilt Category. Read more
UrbanWorks collaborated with Lead Artist Lauren Pacheco to win First Place in the 2017 Downtown Gary Public Art Competition with the team’s Destination Gary: Art Park submission. The competition “has a commitment to work with both emerging and established artists to produce high quality, innovative, and creative art projects and exhibitions in public spaces in Gary, Indiana.” Destination Gary reimagines over two acres of vacant land into an art park, filled with a series of creative installations for the public.
Galewood Elementary School in Chicago was one of 74 buildings awarded the 2016 American Architecture Award. This award program, organized by the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, highlights “the best new buildings designed and constructed by American architects in the U.S. and abroad and by international architects for buildings designed and built in the United States,” and includes projects of every type, from skyscrapers to parks. This year’s awards program will culminate in an Awards Presentation/Gala Dinner in Chicago, an exhibition of winning projects in Athens, Greece and the publication of all winning projects in New American Architecture, published by Metropolitan Arts Press. Read more
UrbanWorks served as Associate Architects on the Ross Barney Architects team for the CTA Cermak-McCormick Place Station, which previously received two 2015 AIA Chicago Design Excellence Awards. The project is now shortlisted for a 2016 World Architecture Festival Award under the Transport – Completed Buildings category, and is competing against projects from France, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. Winners will be announced during the festival, held in Berlin, Germany, in November 2016. Read more
UrbanWorks served as Associate Architects on the Ross Barney Architects team for the CTA Cermak-McCormick Place Station which received two 2015 AIA Chicago Design Excellence Awards. The project received the Distinguished Building Award for its overall design solution as well as the Divine Detail Award for its innovative “Traintube” of perforated aluminum shingles and a polycarbonate skylight. The team for this project also included sub consultants TY Lin International, Singh and Associates, and LTK Engineering, as well as contractor FH Paschen. The client was the Chicago Department of Transportation. Read more
UrbanWorks received a 2015 ALA Merit Award in the Unbuilt category for the our work on the Old Cook County Hospital Adaptive Reuse project. All award winners are featured in the winter issue of Licensed Architect magazine. This is our firms sixth ALA Award including Gold Medal Design Awards for Textile Center and Galewood Elementary School, and Merit Awards for La Casa Student Housing, Park Boulevard Mixed-Income Housing, and Veterans Memorial Campus at Archer Heights. See our Buzz post from October 7, 2014 for more project details. Read more
UrbanWorks’ La Casa Student Housing project was featured as part of a Chicago Architect Magazine profile on the work and legacy of Richard H. Driehaus, the recipient of the 2015 AIA Chicago Lifetime Achievement Award. Driehaus, a philanthropist known for his work in historic preservation as well as promoting quality design for underserved communities, has shown his support for “projects that make ‘a significant contribution to the social, visual and cultural life of their neighborhoods through quality of design’” through competitions and awards such as the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Architectural Excellence in Community Design. This award is given annually to three projects located in the Chicago-area, and UrbanWorks has received a First Place Award for our work on Veterans Memorial Campus at Archer Heights in 2011, and most recently for La Casa Student Housing in 2013. Read more
The UrbanWorks concept ICE CADE is shortlisted in the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) design competition ChiDesign – an international ideas competition. The concept includes the new headquarters, visitor center and exhibition spaces of the CAF; a new headquarters for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH); a design and allied arts high school; and flexible learning spaces for out-of-school-time youth programs. The ICE CADE building is an homage to an ice sculpture rising from an urban street. All ChiDesign entries are on display at the CAF Atrium Gallery. Read More
