UrbanWorks held the first public meeting for the Armitage Industrial Corridor Framework Plan on July 18th, which invited Chicago residents, business owners and workers to share their thoughts on the corridor and potential ways it could be improved.
Just announced! UrbanWorks’ Wood Street Urban Farm Expansion for Growing Home, Inc. was awarded a $5 million grant as part of Mayor Johnson’s first round of summer 2024 Community Development Grants for the City of Chicago.
UrbanWorks Senior Project Manager Erick Roldan, and Senior Architect Jeremy Olsen recently led separate teams for Rebuilding Together’s 2024 National Rebuilding Day.
We are proud to announce that the new Esperanza Heath Center received the 2024 HACIA PROJECT OF THE YEAR AWARD at the 44th Annual Awards Banquet!
On February 25, as part of Career Week for middle school students (24 careers over 6 days), Maria presented and engaged in dialog about the Architectural profession.
UrbanWorks Principal, Robert Natke AIA, was invited to participate in the Combat Infantrymen’s Association Monument Charrette Workshop sponsored by AIA Chicago on February 28, 2020.
UrbanWorks was a proud sponsor of the SOLD OUT Women in the Built World Symposium, held on February 7 in Chicago’s Merchandise Mart.
UrbanWorks Principal Pat Natke recently co-chaired the AIA Chicago Equity Roundtable, which held its second open meeting on October 10th, 2019.
UrbanWorks was honored to be the Architect for the recently opened West Pullman School Redevelopment, which features 60 units of affordable housing for seniors on Chicago’s south side. See below the fold for video from ABC7.
UrbanWorks teamed up with Tandem Inc. and BASE Engineering for the 2018 Canstruction Chicago design competition. The competition is a “design/build event which benefits the Greater Chicago Food Depository,” featuring “colossal structures made entirely out of cans of food.” The structures are then judged by a celebrity chef, members of the AEC industry as well as the public. UrbanWorks’ entry, DNA_Societies, consisted of 3,843 cans of food, and spoke to how the food we eat (and our access to healthy food) modifies human DNA over time. Go team!
