JLK Architects

We're so proud of our work with Milhouse Engineering & Construction Inc. and Chicago Park District to rehabilitate this important park and 114-year-old fieldhouse!

We're so proud of our work with @milhouse.engineering and @chicagoparks to rehabilitate this important park and 114-year-old fieldhouse! #ageandbeauty #lovewhatyoudo #REPOST @chicagoparks with @get__repost__app It’s OPEN! @chicagoparks newly improved Seward Park welcomes visitors with a party & ribbon cutting. @chicagoparks Superintendent @chicago_rosa joined @ilsecofstate, @aldermanburnett27, local advisory group members, and the Near North Side community to celebrate the much-anticipated re-opening of Seward Park, 375 W. Elm St. IMPROVEMENTS Seward Park is an existing 8.79-acre park located in the Near North Side Community. ✅ concrete and masonry, stairs, ramps, doors, roof and gutters, and plumbing infrastructure. ✅ accessibility upgrades, which include new ramps, new elevator, two new chair lifts, accessible washrooms, drinking fountain and signage. ✅ exterior landscape has also been restored ✅ a new playground is now open. The park has been a staple of the community and a place for recreation for more than a century. This park, like all our urban green spaces, are vital to the physical, social and mental health of our city’s residents. We're truly excited to see this park be filled to the brim with activity once again. ... #SewardPark #InTheParks #chicagoparkdistrict #ChicagoParks #repostwindows #repostw10

JLK is proud to partner with Habitat for Humanity WomenBuild!

The life-changing benefits of affordable homeownership are immense: it improves school performance, decreases crime, improves financial outcomes, and enhances the health and well-being of children and adults – just to name a few. But due to gendered barriers like the pay gap and its impact on credit access, and uneven child care responsibilities that limit time and financial resources, it is far more difficult for women to become homeowners. JLK Architects and Holabird & Root are teaming up this year to do something about it.

Help us reach our goal so we can help these women unlock the benefits that homeownership provides and prove that there is nothing a committed group of women can’t achieve when they come together.

Holabird & Root - Women Build 2021 The life-changing benefits of affordable homeownership are immense: it improves school performance, decreases crime, improves financial outcomes, and enhances the health and well-being of children and adults – just to name a few. But due to gendered barriers like the pay gap and its impact on cred...

JLK is working with TransSystems and Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill to provide historic preservation, Section 106 consulting services, and architectural design assistance for one of Chicago’s most utilized CTA stations at the intersection of State and Lake Streets. The Historic Preservation scope of work includes determination of the Area of Potential Effect (APE) for the project, documentation of all potentially affected historic properties, and overall assistance with NEPA compliance.

Renderings Unveiled For $180M ‘Bold' New State-Lake CTA Station Renderings unveiled Wednesday of a redesigned State and Lake CTA station show a $180 million “light-filled new transit hub” to replace the more than 100-year-old downtown Chicago “L” stop.

Meg Kindelin speaks on a virtual book tour- Modern in the Middle

Famed as the birthplace of that icon of twentieth-century architecture, the skyscraper, Chicago also cultivated a more humble but no less consequential form of modernism–the private residence. Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-75 explores the substantial yet overlooked role that Chicago and its suburbs played in the development of the modern single-family house in the twentieth century. In a city often associated with the outsize reputations of Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the examples discussed in this generously illustrated book expand and enrich the story of the region’s built environment.

Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-75 - a Landmarks Illinois virtual book discussion Co-authored by architectural historian, preservationist and Landmarks Illinois Emeritus Board Member Susan Benjamin, and IIT professor Michelangelo Sabatino,...