Awards
2022 – IIDA Illinois RED Awards, Residential Winner (Kadlec Architecture + Design)
2021 – Luxe RED Award, Regional Winner – Contemporary/Modern Architecture
Publications
The Chicago Residence is a city home designed to host multi-generational family members from across the country together in one place.
Spanning two city lots, the five-story home is conceived as a solid mass that layers and carves out space to capture daylight and create unique environments for living.
The home is clad in Black Swell granite, selected for its striking veining and visual texture, providing a sense of depth and movement, and contrasting to the traditional brick and limestone facades in the neighborhood.
Single and double-height spaces work in unison to achieve the owner’s desires for openness and intimacy. Guests and family, arriving on foot or through the rear garage, enter a welcoming two-story atrium gallery bathed in natural light from above. At the center, a staircase ascends upwards like a steel ribbon, connecting the first four levels.
On the third level, rooms for gathering are grand, yet comfortable. Two double-height living spaces wrap around a partially enclosed outdoor living-room terrace carved away at the rear corner; floor-to-ceiling glass walls brighten the home and open in nice weather.
A fourth-floor office and hallway overlook the open space below, borrowing natural light via glass walls lined with privacy curtains. A spiraling metal stair hovers over living spaces below as a sculptural piece of art.
The sculptural spiral stair ascends to a fifth-floor office and spa opening onto a serene Japanese-inspired terrace, its curved plate steel, hand-finished plaster, and walnut handrail forming a unified geometric composition.
On the first level, family and guests enjoy activities in a media room, exercise room, and double-height half-scale basketball court visible from a tempered glass hallway above. Three guest suites occupy the second floor.
“…the architecture, furnishings, and art combine in uncommonly elegant harmony.”
Pilar Viladas, Galerie Magazine
Additional Images
Photography: Richard Powers
Interiors: Kadlec Architecture + Design
General Contractor: Power Construction
Lighting Design: Lux Populi
Landscape Architect: McKay Landscape Architects
Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
MEP Engineer: ESD