Kitchen & Bath Design Awards 2025
Best Showroom – SILVER

View Article | BY KITCHEN & BATH DESIGN NEWS | AUGUST 2025 For Jennifer Sourounis and the Bulthaup Chicago team, the reimagining of the showroom, located in a 3,000-sq.-ft. century-old commercial loft, was an opportunity to explore contemporary lifestyles. In particular, the brand wanted to showcase an open kitchen lifestyle that incorporates furniture in addition to typical kitchen fare. Additionally, …

Kitchen & Bath Design Awards 2025
Best Kitchen Over $250,000 – SILVER

View Article | BY KITCHEN & BATH DESIGN NEWS | AUGUST 2025 Located in Highland Park just north of Chicago, this home is situated on a winding ravine that feeds into nearby Lake Michigan. Andrea Goldman Design and Robbins Architecture, working with Goldberg General Contracting, also in Chicago, was inspired by the property’s landscape to create an interior that blended …

Mansion Global
Ultra-Modern Mansion on Three Lots in Chicago’s Hip Bucktown Neighborhood Lists for $7.25 Million

View Article | BY MANSION GLOBAL 2023 A striking four-level contemporary house spanning three lots in the heart of ’s hip Bucktown neighborhood listed Tuesday for $7.25 million, Mansion Global has learned. “It is not only Chicago’s finest modern estate,” said listing agent Brad Lippitz, president of the Brad Lippitz Group at Compass. “It’s one of the finest examples of new modern …

Better Magazine
Expansive Lakefront Ode to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Style

by TATE GUNNERSON View Article | June 26, 2022 Architect Scott Fortman has designed buildings in a variety of styles, from traditional to Richard Meier-inspired modernism, but it was Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie Style dwellings that first sparked his imagination. When Fortman was courting his wife, he often took her on tours of Wright-designed homes. They married in Wright’s former home and studio in Wisconsin.  …

Great Lakes by Design
Lakefront Prairie oasis

On the western shores of Lake Michigan, a composition of brick and stucco, leaded glass windows and overhanging eaves, emerges from its sloped landscape in an artful celebration of geometric abstraction. Surrounded by planted sumac and prairie grasses on a blufflike dune ecosystem, the home is respectful of the iconic Prairie Style where principles are adapted for its site, purpose, …

Preservation Magazine
Seaworthy House in Highland Park

From our interview with Lydia Hankins and Ted Chung: View Link Lydia: Our house is called the Battledeck House. It was built by the architect Henry Dubin for himself and his family in 1930. Dubin had gone with Mies van der Rohe to Germany, where he was exposed to the Bauhaus style. He came back to the United States with the …

Chicago Magazine
A Glassy Highland Park Abode Takes Prairie School Literally

A conservationist and an interior designer created a place that embraces their interests: namely, untamed nature. BY HEIDI MITCHELL As if on cue, a red fox erupts from the ravine and saunters up to the living room. “We know her!” exclaims Bruce Boyd, co-owner of the glass-enclosed home at whose walnut slab dining table we sit. “She’s the one with …

DeZeen Magazine
Low-lying Ravine House for nature lovers

Originally written by Jenna McKnight | 22 October 2019 American studio Wheeler Kearns Architects has completed a single-storey residence on a wooded site outside of Chicago, featuring black facades and large windows that engage the landscape. The Ravine House is located in the suburban town of Highland Park, situated about 25 miles (40 kilometres) north of downtown Chicago. The dwelling sits quietly within a forested property, where …

Chicago Magazine
A Gothic Revival in Kenwood With a Killer Art Collection

How two devotees created a haven worthy of their stunning private stash BY HEIDI MITCHELL When you live in the kind of house that requires you to restore 90 leaded glass windows and replace a copper roof (twice) plus seven headless gargoyles, curious strangers tend to come knocking on the door. Such has been the experience at a Kenwood mansion …

Preservation Magazine
Couple Restores a Spacious Gothic Revival, Inside and Out

Jay Dandy: We bought the house in June of 2002 and moved in that November. We had been living in a big, Victorian-era house, and this one was equally grand, if not grander. It had soaring 12-foot ceilings. Melissa Weber: Also, the rooms were very open and square, as opposed to long and narrow, which is typical of Victorian houses. We were …