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Urbanize Chicago: City Council approves funding for Roosevelt Square Phase 3B
Terrace 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…
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Chicago Reader: “Are tiny houses a solution to homelessness in Chicago?”
Next City: Chicago Housing Authority Gets New Affordable Housing Tool
Terrace 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 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 Opens, providing more affordable housing options for individuals and families
“To build a community, you have to do it from the inside out. And, you have to start with people. This means that we must make more than a bricks-and-mortar commitment. It means that we must all make a commitment to work together to make a difference in the city.” ~ Peter Holsten, President, Holsten…
Read MoreConstruction Time-laspe at Parkside of Old Town
Legends South and “the changing face of the city’s public housing”
LBBA’s ‘Legends South’ on the site of the former Robert Taylor Homes was one of a few projects featured in the recent Architectural Record article ‘Sheltering Chicago: The Changing Face of the City’s Public Housing.’ The article, written by Anna Fixsen, overviews Chicago’s public housing history from the isolated high-rise superblocks of the 60’s to…
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