Posts Tagged ‘plan for transformation’
Elm 551 at Parkside, Chicago, IL
As a part of the Chicago Housing Authority’s “Plan for Transformation” on the site of the former Cabrini-Green housing project, Elm 551 at Parkside of Old Town shifts the old high-rise public housing model to one of midrise and low-rise mixed-income housing. The goal of the project design was for community based, urban, sustainable, and well-designed…
Read MoreTerrace 459 Biennial Partner Program
Biennial Partner Program 459 West Division: A Story in Images Channeling Chicago’s complicated history, the title for the 2019 edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial is …and other such stories. Landon Bone Baker explored the theme of Appearances and Erasures (“Explores sites of memory and the politics of remembering and/or forgetting in contested spaces, considering…
Read MoreMuseum Archipelago: The National Public Housing Museum With Robert J. Smith III
“Social Mix” at Archeworks Agendas 01
Join us Thursday at Archeworks to see work by local architects that are “challenging conventions, approaching dilemmas, and defining new tools and methods.” Pete Landon and Tyler Brown will be presenting Terrace 459 at Parkside of Old Town, the newest mixed-income development at former Cabrini Green. RSVP THE TEMPLE OF ALL RELIGIONS Vaidotas Vaiciulis – REX New York WASTE ACTIVISM Nicolette…
Read MoreTerrace 459 Featured in Architect’s Newspaper
‘This Place, Displaced’ (The Architect’s Newspaper, Issue 3, July 27, 2016), written by Matthew Messner, outlines the history, plan, realities, and current state of CHA’s redevelopment of Cabrini Green into a mixed-income neighborhood.
Read Morefrom the archive: realistic idealist
Pre-Plan for Transformation, Pete talks about his hopes for Cabrini Green. You can find a reader-friendly version is here.
Read MoreTerrace 459: ‘Best of Development’
Terrace 459 at Parkside of Old Town has been named one of the nation’s top recent developments by Real Estate Forum magazine. The featured “placemaking” projects were largely selected based on the successful coordination and collaboration executed by each project team. View pdf announcement here. In place of isolated towers, the new public housing approach offers more housing options and…
Read MoreTerrace 459 at Parkside of Old Town, Chicago, IL
Led by Holsten Real Estate Development Corporation and the Local Advisory Council of Cabrini residents, Parkside of Old Town is part of the redevelopment of the former Cabrini Extension North. The plan includes approximately 18 acres on the city’s Near North Side and will provide more than 700 homes on the ground of the infamous…
Read MoreConstruction Time-laspe at Parkside of Old Town
After the Plan: What Happened to Public Housing Families?
This coming Wednesday, join a panel discussion in a conversation about the displacement of families in the wake of the Chicago Housing Authority’s Plan for Transformation. Organized by the National Public Housing Museum, with the University of Chicago Urban Network. “Fifteen years after the Plan for Transformation, questions still remain about the relocation of resident families…
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