Posts Tagged ‘education’
BUILD Chicago, Chicago, IL
Since 1969, BUILD has helped thousands of young people transform their lives, and today reaches over 6500 youth and families annually with caring adult mentors and a rich variety of experiences in the arts, athletics, college & career preparation, entrepreneurship, leadership development, technology, and mental health programming. Their model blends the best practices of restorative…
Read MoreWindy City Harvest at Legends South
The Chicago Botanic Garden, through its Windy City Harvest system, has developed a two-acre urban farm and incubator within the footprint of the former Robert Taylor Homes public housing project (now Legends South). The program’s new Legends Farm, supported by site developer Brinshore-Michaels and USDA, includes multiple quarter-acre farm plots, as well as shared-use tool…
Read MoreairLab
Airlab is a team 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…
Read MoreShadelab Receives Special Recognition from the Association of Architecture Organizations
Shadelab, a program created by Landon Bone Baker Architects with Public Workshop and Latin United Community Housing Association, was selected for “Special Recognition” by the U.S. Jury for the Architecture & Children Golden Cubes Awards. The UIA Golden Cubes Awards were organized to recognize, encourage, and support those individuals and organizations that lay the foundations…
Read MoreVon 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…
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