Haas Park Field House and Expansion Project

I have been getting involved in the Haas Park Field House and Expansion project in my neighborhood of Logan Square. The Chicago Park District and the Public Building Commission presented a proposal of a new field house at a community meeting so I worked with the neighbors and HAAS Park Advisory Council to create a site plan that showed the community’s concerns and issues such as orientation of the building on the site, connections to streets, views... Read More

Support the National Public Housing Museum

The National Public Housing Museum has applied for federal funding and needs your help! Please support the National Public Housing Museum’s federal appropriation request. We will be able to put 70 plus people to work immediately with construction jobs and upon opening will provide 30 full and part-time permanent jobs. Additionally, our feasibility study projects that we will welcome over 60,000 visitors to the near West Side and the city of... Read More

Von Humboldt Elementary School Classroom 101: A Plan for Change

Last summer LBBA partnered with Classroom 101 of Von Humboldt Elementary School to address issues they and many other classrooms face in their school. The partnership was started when entering into the Open Architecture Network Challenge: designing a new classroom. Our approach was to focus on upgrading a first grade classroom in an architecturally significant Chicago Public School building that was constructed around the turn of the century. What... Read More