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
Park Boulevard Residential Development featured in Barra Funda em três tempos (Brazil) as an example of successful mixed income housing. Book Design by Marta and Marcelo Aflalo of Univers Design, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Aflalo, M. (2014). Barra Funda em três tempos (1st ed., pp. 114-115). Sao Paulo: Paralaxe Editora.
Patricia Saldaña Natke, UrbanWorks’ Design Principal, is featured as one of Five Emerging Design Talents who are reshaping Chicago’s Architecture. “What the emerging talents of the city’s architecture industry share is a singular ability to reshape the built environments where they practice their trade. Sometimes the changes they create bolt into the public view dramatically…. In other instances, the shifts in the built environment they create are more subtle, such as a plan for the former Cabrini-Green area” by Crains Chicago Business’ Micah Maidenberg Read more
SWISSPEARL will be featuring the La Casa Dormitories in their spring magazine Read more