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The Architects Newspaper: Architects sign on for the Global Climate Strike
Reshaping our Footprint: Blooming Winter Blues
City of Chicago: Housing Strategies for a Thriving City, Five Year Housing Plan
As a member of the 2019-2023 Five Year Housing Plan Advisory Group, LBBA Principal Jeff Bone participated in the 2018 visioning sessions along with 120 housing advocates. LBBA has a firm-wide belief that housing is a human right so we are eager to contribute to discussions affecting not only our clients but also the greater…
Read MoreCrains’s Chicago Business: Who says a homeless facility can’t be dazzling?
Crain’s Chicago Business published a great read on our long-term client La Casa Norte and their executive directors, Sol Flores, big plans the organization. The article highlights La Casa Norte’s Pierce House covering Sol’s vigorous fundraising and other accomplishments of the organization. We’re thankful for the opportunity to work with Sol and La Casa Norte as they…
Read MoreVox: 23 charts and maps that show the world is getting much, much better
Quigley, LGBTQ housing advocates meet with HUD Secretary Carson
Landon Bone Baker has been working with LaCasa Norte and Pride Action Tank on a tiny house project in Chicago. Tracy Baim from Pride Action Tank recently met with government officials to explain the need and reason for tiny houses. Read more here.
Read MoreMuseum Archipelago: The National Public Housing Museum With Robert J. Smith III
LBBA Featured in “By Design” An Original Series by Graphisoft
LBBA will be featured in episode 2 of By Design, an original digital series by Graphisoft, the makers of ARCHICAD. The series focuses on capturing the current state of architecture and the direction it’s heading by taking an inside look at several architecture firms across America and Canada. Each episode runs about 5 minutes long…
Read MoreLive on ‘Chicago Tonight,’ Pete Talks Community Redevelopment
“We design buildings that try to respond to the positive idea of who people are.” On Monday night, Peter Landon joined Kim Coventry, executive director of the Driehaus Foundation, and Dennis Rodkin, real estate reporter for Crain’s Chicago Business, to talk about the importance of good design in community development with Phil Ponce, host of wttw’s Chicago…
Read MorePete Landon, Todd Palmer, and the NPHM on ‘Project Innovation’
Get a look into the design and construction of the upcoming 1st-ever National Public Housing Museum on this episode of ‘Project Innovation.’ Architect Peter Landon and curator Todd Palmer talk through their intentions for converting the Jane Addams homes designed by John Holabird in 1938 in Chicago’s Little Italy neighborhood.
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