Catherine Baker to participate on Healthy Communities panel at Illinois Governor’s Conference on Affordable Housing
The Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) and the Illinois Housing Council (IHC) are co-hosting the 2013 Illinois Governor’s Conference on Affordable Housing on Tuesday, April 23rd and Wednesday, April 24th at the UIC Forum in Chicago. The conference includes keynote events and over 20 panels across six concurrent sessions. Each session will address financing, asset and property management, policy, special needs housing, and green... Read More
Mayor Emanuel Celebrates Ribbon Cutting of Harvest Commons Apartments as Part of Eisenhower Corridor ‘Neighborhoods Now’ Developments
/* Prev|Next Mayor Rahm Emanuel joined Near West Side community leaders and site developers today for the formal re-opening of the $22.3 million Harvest Commons Apartments, a designated City landmark that was converted into 89 low-income studios with on-site social services. Harvest Commons Apartments, formerly known as the Viceroy Hotel, was redeveloped during the last year by Heartland Housing in conjunction... Read More
Pete Landon and Catherine Baker to Present During Behind-the-Scenes Tour with the National Public Housing Museum
/* LBBA’s Pete Landon and Catherine Baker will present the National Public Housing Museum during a day-long “mobile symposium” on Saturday, March 23 that explores a past, present, and future look at the topic of “shelter” through public housing in Chicago. “Architecture is Activism… Shelter!” features a special tour of the Jane Addams Hull House Museum, a drive-by discussion (and short walk)... Read More
LBBA submits Sustainability Action Plan
/* Prev|Next After signing on to the AIA 2030 Commitment program in 2011, LBBA extended its focus beyond more energy-efficient building designs to address firm culture. The AIA program asks firms to take a leadership role in operational improvements and project design by reducing energy consumption in the built environment through design innovation, education, and promotion of new technologies and solutions. To align our... Read More
AIArchitect Profiles Catherine Baker
LBBA’s Catherine Baker is featured in the most recent issue of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) AIArchitect Magazine. The article, “Catherine Baker, AIA: Linking the Social and Spatial with Community Outreach Architecture,” explores how overlapping principles of architecture and social sciences inform LBBA’s approach to community-engaged design projects. Across all of our outreach efforts, our goal is to educate communities, organizations,... Read More
Historic Humboldt Park Murals to Be Restored
/* Prev|Next In addition to rehabbing two affordable housing properties at Borinquen Bella, the Latin United Community Housing Association has secured support to save two historic murals on the sites. The artworks, Honor Boricua and Rompiendo Las Cadenas, will be restored with help from the original artists and remain as a visible link to Humboldt Park’s Puerto Rican past. Facing the northeast corner of Rockwell... Read More
Fresh Faces at LBBA
Meet the newest members of Landon Bone Baker Architects! LBBA is pleased to welcome Maggie Jarr, Josh Mings, and Michelle Krepp to the office this fall. Visit our profile page to find out more about these new hires, including their past experiences and goals as they join the practice. Read More
airlab2.0 smartluck schedule
Lunches will start at noon, followed by a presentation and short follow up activity All are welcome! please RSVP in advanced to OfficeManager@landonbonebaker.com July 11 Patrick Cunningham July 18 Angela Hurlock, Executive Director, Claretian Associates July 25 John Katrakis, JT Katrakis and Associates August 1 Andy Geer, Vice President, Enterprise Community Partners August 8 ... Read More
airLab 2.0
We’re back! Our new airLab team consists of 5 high school students and 3 college level mentors, now young Chicago civic leaders, whose mission is to research and collect data on the indoor air quality (IAQ) at the Rosa Parks Apartments in the West Humboldt Park Community. Our program goals are to educate communities, organizations, and city leaders to make better decisions about how they can improve the health, well-being and efficiency of... Read More
Spanish Coalition for Housing
Check out new photos by Mark Ballogg of the recently completed offices for the housing advocacy non-profit, Spanish Coalition for Housing. Click the photo for more details! Read More