Posts Tagged ‘sustainability’
2018 Year In Review
2018 was a year full of accomplishments and success for LBBA—here are the highlights. Peter Landon, Jeff Bone, and Catherine Baker Named in Chicago Tribune Chicagoans of the Year 2018 Read More Peter Landon Received AIA Chicago’s Lifetime Achievement Award at Designight Read More New Office + New Principals Read More Tierra Linda Featuring the…
Read MoreTierra Linda Passive House Design
This an informative downloadable PDF about the decisions behind designing and constructing Tierra Linda’s Passive House.
Read MoreMcCrory Senior Apartments, Chicago, IL
McCrory Senior Apartments is the development of a stretch of ten vacant lots on Chicago’s Near West Side into 62 units of affordable housing for low-income seniors. The project is a transit-oriented development located in a highly desirable area, just three blocks from United Center and walkable or easily accessible to restaurants, retail shops, supportive…
Read MoreChicago Cityscape: Local affordable housing developer is first to build a multi-family Passive House
LUCHA: Featuring the first, affordable multi-family Passive House in Illinois!
Grand Opening: Tierra Linda
Today LUCHA celebrated the grand opening of its first sustainability-oriented affordable housing project, Tierra Linda! As a scattered site development, Tierra Linda offers affordable housing in 3-flat and 6-flat buildings across Humboldt Park. The ribbon cutting was held in front of the first multi-family Passive House in Illinois.
Read MoreTierra Linda, Chicago, IL
LBBA has been working with Latin United Community Housing Association (LUCHA) for over 25 years to transform empty lots and rundown buildings into safe, decent housing close to schools, parks, and other services. Together, we have built and renovated over 175 units of affordable housing in Humboldt Park. Tierra Linda, a scattered-site housing project located…
Read MoreThe Architect Newspaper: Facades+ Chicago will explore structural and facade systems at dizzying heights
Grand Opening: Highlander
Today Seventy Five North Revitalization Corp. hosted a ribbon cutting for Highlander Phase I, a 117 rental units and 61 senior living residences! This phase is part of a larger redevelopment plan aimed to break the cycle of poverty by creating a healthy, sustainable, mixed-income community. Landon Bone Baker Architects collaborated with Alley Poyner Macchietto…
Read MoreTierra Linda Passive House Tour
Yesterday Eco Achievers hosted a tour of Tierra Linda’s Passive House, the first multi-family Passive House in Illinois! Guests gathered inline outside of the mid-constructed project showing the completed STO Gold coat installation on the exterior sheathing. The tour began with Charlene Andreas, from the project’s developer LUCHA, introducing how the Passive House became a…
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