Rosa Parks Apartments receives AIA Chicago’s 2011 Distinguished Building Award
Rosa Parks Apartments continues its award-winning track record– amongst a crowd of some 800 architects, designers, contractors and clients on AIA Chicago’s 56th annual Design Night, Landon Bone Baker accepted AIA Chicago’s Distinguished Building Award for outstanding achievement in contemporary design. Congratulations LBBA!
The Nitty Gritty: More Details about Dorchester Artist Housing
Find out why Dorchester Artist Housing could be a model for attracting market-rate residents to mixed-income rebuilds. Check out The Architect’s Newspaper’s article about this project, which discusses the project’s plans in further detail.
Ball State Awards Jeff Bone for Outstanding Achievement
LBBA’s Jeff Bone is being recognized for his achievements by his Alma mater, Ball State University this year. Congratulations Jeff!
As part of the College of Architecture and Planning’s Alumni Day and Symposium, Jeff will discuss his contributions to the architectural profession and practice in a presentation entitled Sustaining Community: Small Steps, Big Change.
The event is free and open to the public this Friday, October 28th. For more information about the event, click the image above.
CHA Approves Dorchester Artist Housing
One of LBBA’s latest projects, Dorchester Artist Housing, has been approved by the Chicago Housing Authority. This unique project is a part of CHA’s 15-year Plan For Transformation that removes high-rise buildings and replaces them with mixed-income communities. The arts community-related aspect of the project is generating excitement amongst residents. Check out more renderings and plans for the project here. Groundbreaking is set to begin in 2012.
Rosa Parks Apartments Continues to be Recognized as an Outstanding Project
Rosa Parks Apartments has been awarded the 2011 GreenSite Award for multifamily housing, by Concrete Producer magazine. The editors of Concrete Construction and The Concrete Producer have created an awards program to recognize innovations in developing and building sustainable projects. Check out their feature on Rosa Parks Apartments here.
LBBA’s Catherine Baker Participating on Two Panels at Design in Action 2011
The Chicago-based AAO (Association of Architecture Organizations) is hosting its annual Design in Action Conference in Philadelphia this year. The 2.5 day conference includes keynote events, 20+ breakout sessions, a community design exhibition, workshops, hands-on building opportunities and mobile tours, with a focus on community collaboration and design within architecture and the built environment.
Catherine will be a special guest speaker for Public Interest Practice in Architecture: A 2011 AIA Latrobe Prize Dialogue, in which Latrobe Prize Recipients Roberta Feldman, University of Illinois at Chicago and David Perkes, Gulf Coast Community Design Studio will discuss what is necessary for public interest work to become a significant segment of architecture practice. Alongside Anne Frederick, of Hester Street Collaborative, Brian Phillips of Interface Studio Architects and Bill Singer of Environmental Works, Catherine will discuss how to educate local communities within architectural firms on the Sewing Community Education into Practice panel later in the day.
AAO is a member-based network that supports many organizations around the world that are dedicated to interpreting architecture and the built environment to the general public.
Theaster Gates and LBBA Brainstorm for the Dorchester Artist Housing Collaborative during Chicago Ideas Week
Hey creative brains, start firing your synapses– October 10-16 is Chicago Ideas Week! CIW will bring 100 of the world’s top speakers together for labs and discussions with Chicago’s best thinkers to create an ecosystem of innovation, exploration, and intellectual recreation.
Theaster Gates, artist, planner and founder of Dorchester Projects and the Rebuild Foundation, partnered with LBBA and a small group of arts and development specialists, will brainstorm economic scenarios for the abandoned Dante Harper building– a 36-unit CHA low rise housing project that will soon become the Dorchester Artist Housing Collaborative. As architects for the project, LBBA will be rehabbing the space into 33 units of affordable rental public housing. The development will contain a central artist community space for work, display and community classes and events. In exchange for reduced rent, artists living in the development will contribute time to providing art and performance classes to public housing and other residents, and work with the Enrico Fermi school across the street. The project is planned for opening in early 2013.
Dorchester Projects and the Rebuild Foundation focus on activating creative community resources in the reuse of marginalized cultural institutions throughout the Midwest.
Join in on this exciting discussion on Monday, October 10th from 5-8pm at Dorchester Projects on Chicago’s South Side. Purchase tickets for this, and any other CIW event here.
woodlawn/grove parc awarded one of five national choice neighborhood implementation grants today at Woodlawn Center South
U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan and Mayor Rahm Emanuel were on site at Woodlawn Center South today to announce that five cities will receive a combined $122 million to redevelop distressed housing and bring comprehensive neighborhood revitalization to blighted areas.
Woodlawn, home of the Woodlawn Park development is one of the recipients of the first-ever Implementation Grants awarded under HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods Initiative, a new strategy and tools to support local leaders in transforming high-poverty, distressed neighborhoods into neighborhoods with healthy, affordable housing, safe streets, and access to quality educational opportunities. Read more coverage on the story here.
Viceroy SRO to be featured on NPR’s 848 Show
Photo courtesy Eric Allix Rogers
Find out more information aboout Viceroy SRO, one of LBBA’s newest projects, by tuning in to NPR’s 848 show Monday, August 29th at 9am. Chicago SROs will be the subject of Monday’s show.
Watch airLab on the Alderman Walter Burnett Show!
Get the scoop on airLab, on the Alderman Walter Burnett Show! Watch more clips on LBBA’s vimeo page. Watch the show in its entirety when it airs on the WN network this September.