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Nov 15
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La Casa Featured as Part of Driehaus Profile

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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

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Nov 06
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UrbanWorks wins a 2015 ALA Merit Award

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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

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Mar 20
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Newcity 50 Designers

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Patricia Saldaña Natke is selected as one of the 2014 Design 50 by NEWCITY. “Design is no longer an afterthought. At this cultural moment, design has come to embody both the capacity for creative vision and the means of realizing it. Newcity’s 2014 Design 50 entries celebrate this cultural shift. For the second annual issue, we’ve sought out Chicago’s most respected-and most promising-designers from across industries. They are visionaries and doers. They are Chicago’s top creatives.” by Newcity’s F. Philip Barash. Read More
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Mar 03
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Crain’s Chicago Emerging Designers

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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

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