AIA Chicago Design Excellence Awards
Architecture XS – Honor Award
Sawyer Retreat

AIA Chicago Design Excellence Awards
Interior Architecture M – Honor Award
Lookingglass Theatre Lobby

North American Copper in Architecture Award (NACIA)
Residential
Snowmass Retreat

Architizer A+ Awards
Special Mention – Private House (M 2000 – 4000 sq ft), Sawyer Retreat

CBC Merit Awards
Finalist – Renovation & Adaptive Reuse Over $20M
Art In Motion

CBC Merit Awards
Finalist – Community Impact Award
Go Green Community Fresh Market

Fay Jones School Alumni Design Awards
Citation Award, Galien River Retreat

Builder’s Choice & Custom Home Design Awards
Grand Award, Meadow Lane Retreat

Builder’s Choice & Custom Home Design Awards
Merit Award, Sawyer Retreat

Builder’s Choice & Custom Home Design Awards
Merit Award, Two Gables

Wood Design + Building Awards
Sansin Sponsored Awards
Galien River Retreat

ULI Chicago Vision Awards (Client: IMAN)
Go Green Community Fresh Market

National Stone Institute Tucker Design Awards
Meadow Lane Retreat

AIA Chicago Lerch Bates People’s Choice Awards
Finalist – Single-Family Residential New Construction, Two Gables

Architizer A+ Awards
Finalist, Private House (XS <1000 sq ft) Clearwater Lake Retreat

Luxe RED Awards
Regional Exterior Architecture, Two Gables

Best of LaCantina
Best Suburban Residential Project,
Two Gables

WAN Healthcare
Gold Award, Broadway Youth Center

AIA Illinois Honor Awards
Excellence in Interiors Projects 5,000 SF and Above, Elgin Math and Science Academy

AIA Chicago Lerch Bates People’s Choice Awards
Finalist – Office
North Lawndale Employment Network

AIA Chicago Lerch Bates People’s Choice Awards
Single Family Residential – New Construction, Broadway Youth Center

AIA Chicago Design Excellence Awards
Architecture S – Citation of Merit
Broadway Youth Center

AIA Chicago Design Excellence Awards
Interior Architecture M – Citation of Merit, AIC – Ryan Learning Center Renovation

AIA Chicago Design Excellence Awards
Architecture S – Citation of Merit
Meadow Lane Retreat

Retrofit Magazine Metamorphosis Awards
Adaptive Reuse Low Rise subcategory, Great Lakes Academy Expansion

AIA/AAH Healthcare Design Awards
Category A: Construction Cost Under $25 Million, Broadway Youth Center

Architizer A+ Awards
Architecture +Adaptive Reuse – Finalist, Great Lakes Academy Expansion

Architizer A+ Awards
Mixed Use (S <25,000 sq ft.) – Finalist, Granor Greenhouse

Fay Jones School Alumni Design Awards
Merit Award
AIC – Ryan Learning Center Renovation
(Calli Verkamp (UArk B.Arch ’13))

Fay Jones School Alumni Design Awards
Citation Award, Two Gables
(Laura Cochran (UArk B.Arch ’16))

Brick in Architecture Awards
Commercial, Broadway Youth Center

The Architect’s Newspaper (AN) Best of Design Awards
Healthcare, Broadway Youth Center

Interior Design Best of Year Awards
Government / Institutional Category – Honoree
AIC – Ryan Learning Center Renovation

Masonry Advisory Council – Excellence in Masonry Awards
Best of Healthcare/Scientific
Broadway Youth Center

Masonry Advisory Council – Excellence in Masonry Awards
Best of Educational – Elementary
Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School Expansion

AIA Illinois Honor Awards
Greatest Impact, Project Construction Value Below $5 Million
North Lawndale Employment Network

AIA Chicago Design Excellence Awards
Honor Award – Small Category
Granor Greenhouse

IIDA Illinois RED Awards
Philanthropic Winner (w/Gary Lee Partners), North Lawndale Employment Network

IIDA Illinois RED Awards
Residential Winner (w/Kadlec Architecture + Design), Chicago Residence

Architizer A+ Awards
Architecture + For Good – Finalist
North Lawndale Employment Network

Architizer A+ Awards
Educational Interiors – Special Recognition, AIC – Ryan Learning Center Renovation

CBC Merit Awards
Renovation and Adaptive Reuse Under $15M, Great Lakes Academy Expansion

BD+C Reconstruction Awards
Gold Award, The Momentary

BD+C Reconstruction Awards
Honorable Mention, The Night Ministry

WAN Awards
Adaptive Reuse, Silver, The Momentary

AIA Chicago Interior Architecture Award
Special Recognition, The Night Ministry

AIA Chicago Distinguished Building Award
Honor Award, The Momentary

AIA Illinois Honor Awards
Excellence In Interiors Award For Projects 5,000 SF and Above, The Night Ministry

Architizer A+ Awards
Special Mention, Architecture+ For Good, The Night Ministry

IIDA Illinois RED Awards
Philanthropic Winner, The Night Ministry

IIDA Illinois RED Awards
Residential Winner, Lakeview Penthouse

Luxe RED Awards
Regional Winner, Contemporary/Modern Architecture – Chicago, Chicago Residence

Fay Jones School Alumni Design Awards
Merit Award, Ravine House / Thomas Boyster (UArk B.Arch. ’15)

Fay Jones School Alumni Design Awards
Honor Award, The Momentary / Calli Verkamp (UArk B.Arch ’13) and Thomas Boyster (UArk B.Arch. ’15)

Interior Design Best of Year Awards
Finalist
Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School Expansion

The Architect’s Newspaper (AN) Best of Design Awards
Adaptive Reuse – Editors’ Pick
The Momentary

The Architect’s Newspaper (AN) Best of Design Awards
Facades – Honorable Mention
Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School Expansion

AIA Chicago Interior Architecture Award
Honor Award, Lakeview Penthouse

AIA Chicago Distinguished Building Award
Citation of Merit
Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School Expansion

AIA Chicago Divine Detail Award
Honor Award – “Makom Rina”
Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School Expansion

AIA Chicago Divine Detail Award
Citation of Merit – “Tallit”
Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School Expansion

AIA Chicago Interior Architecture Award
Special Recognition, Chapel of St. Joseph

Builder’s Choice & Custom Home Design Awards
Merit Award, St. Joseph Beach House

Luxe RED Awards
National Winner – Contemporary/Modern Architecture, St. Joseph Beach House

Luxe RED Awards
Regional Winner – Contemporary/Modern Architecture, St. Joseph Beach House

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gb&d Magazine – 9.24.2025

“Inside the Design and Expansion of Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago”
gb&d Magazine – 9.15.2025

“A Parking Garage Becomes a Canvas for Caddo Storytelling”
Arkansas Money & Politics – 8.21.2025

“Designed to Vanish: How Residential Architecture Is Evolving With the Landscape”
Architizer – 7.08.2025

“Pure & Simple”
Luxe Magazine – May/June 2025

“Meadow Lane Retreat”
ArchDaily – 1.10.2025

“Architecture and the American House Now”
Forbes – 10.30.2024

“Sawyer Retreat Design is Like a Treehouse Above the Dunes”
gb&d Magazine – 10.21.2024

“Other Places, Other Views: Meadow Lane Retreat”
RD Magazine – Vol 5 2024

“Two Gables: A Modern Sanctuary for Empty-Nesters”
Objekt International D20 – Sept 2024

“Wheeler Kearns wraps Michigan lake house with two tones of wood” Dezeen – 9.04.2024

“Designing Together: Leveraging Collaborative Design Thinking in Planning Education Spaces”
Education Market Association ‘Essentials’ – 7.18.2024

“Dialogue with the Environment: Two Gables by Wheeler Kearns Architects” Metalocus – 3.29.2024

“Chicago’s Longest-operating Food Pantry Incorporates Trauma-informed Principles”
Retrofit Magazine – 3.11.2024

“Two Gables”
Residential Design Magazine – Vol. 1 2024

“Two Gables”
Architectural Record – 12.27.2023

“Youthful Building Provides A Safe Space”
World Architecture News – 11.22.2023

“Nestled in the Wisconsin Woods, This Secluded Home is a Welcome Escape from the City”
Plain Magazine – 11.03.2023

“A Modernist Pavilion-Style House on a Secluded Lake“
Design Milk – 10.24.2023

“In Chicago, a Youth Center Woven Into Its Community (And Transit System)“
Architect Magazine – 5.01.2023

“New headquarters provide expanded social services to Chicago“
Inhabitat – 4.28.2023

“Under One Roof: The Broadway Youth Center offers essential care to Chicago’s LGBTQ youth“
The Architect’s Newspaper – 4.27.2023

“AIC Ryan Learning Center“
Education Snapshots – 3.14.2023

“Common Pantry’s New Lincoln Avenue Headquarters Aims To Open By Spring, Leaders Say“
Block Club Chicago – 1.24.2023

“Twice as Nice“
Luxe Interiors + Design Chicago – November / December 2022 Issue

“Wheeler Kearns Architects Renovate and Design Strategic Alterations for the Art Institute of Chicago – Ryan Learning Center”
Architizer – Nov. 2022

“Wheeler Kearns Architects places wood-clad living rooms inside Michigan greenhouse“
Dezeen – 6.30.2022

“This Michigan greenhouse takes a whole new approach to ‘farm-to-table“
Fast Company – 5.25.2022

“Proud Moment: Broadway Youth Center opens its first purpose-built facility in Chicago“
Healthcare Design Magazine – April 2022

“North Lawndale Employment Network Sees Through Employment Barriers for the Formerly Incarcerated”
Metropolis Magazine, 2.17.2022

“Wheeler Kearns Architects on Innovative Adaptive Reuse for a Chicago School”
gb&d Magazine – 01.25.2022

“Great Lakes Academy Expansion” Education Snapshots – 01.25.2022

“Case Study: Lakeview Penthouse by Wheeler Kearns Architects”
Residential Design Magazine – 01.20.2022

“Chicago Academy Wraps Remarkable Revamp”
School Construction News – 01.11.2022

“Chicago penthouse renovated by Wheeler Kearns Architects”
World Interior News – 12.29.2021

“Creating a Place of Pilgrimage”
Sacred Places Magazine – Winter 2022

“Wheeler Kearns Architects completes Howard Brown Health’s Broadway Youth Center in Chicago”
BD+C Magazine – 12.07.2021

“Wheeler Kearns Architects complete new HQ for Chicago-based charity” World Interiors News – 10.19.2021

“Happy Place”
Coastal Living – Fall 2021

“Permanent Home for the North Lawndale Employment Network in Chicago”
Chicago Defender – 09.02.2021

“West Side Job Training Campus Will Help Formerly Incarcerated People ‘To Do More, To Be More, To Soar’”
Block Club Chicago – 08.27.2021

“How This Brownfield Transformed into an Aspirational School Campus” BUILDINGS – 08.03.2021

“Wheeler Kearns Architects minimalist home complements Michigan’s landscape”
World Architecture News – 08.02.2021

“Between the City and Lake Michigan”
Metalocus – 07.25.2021

“Art Collecting Chicago Style”
OBJEKT – 07.21.2021

“House Tour: A stylish mansard penthouse in Chicago with a uniquely curved interior”
Home & Decor – 05.14.2021

“The Dune Grass Modern”
Great Lakes by Design – Volume 5 Issue 2

“Building Blueprints Vertical Learning: Chicago School Moves into Downtown High-Rise”
Spaces 4 Learning – 05.01.2021

“High Art”
Modern Luxury Chicago Interiors – April 2021

“U.S. Building of the Week: The Momentary”
world-architects.com – 04.12.2021

“The Momentary”
Hinge Magazine HK, 286 – Print, Spring 2021

“Wheeler Kearns Architects complete Chicago’s Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School expansion”
World Architecture News – 02.19.2021

“Residence for Two Collectors by Wheeler Kearns Architects”
Design Essentia Magazine – Jan/Feb 2021

“A Penthouse with 270° Views of Downtown Chicago”
Plain Magazine – 01.26.2021

“Chicago Adaptive-reuse Project Supports Those Experiencing Homelessness or Poverty”
Retrofit – 01.06.2021

“Tower of Power”
Commercial Construction & Renovation – Dec. 2020 issue

“Inside Chicago Penthouse Redesigned by Wheeler Kearns”
Elite Traveler – 12.29.2020

“At Crystal Bridges’ New Satellite Location, A Former Cheese Factory Is Reborn…”
Landscape Architecture Magazine – Nov. 2020 issue

“An art-filled penthouse with views over Chicago” Elle Decor (Spain) – 11.17.2020

“Chicago Adaptive Reuse Project Provides a Modern Refuge for People in Need”
gb&d Magazine – 11.11.2020

“Residence for Two Collectors is an art-filled Chicago penthouse”
Dezeen – 11.07.2020

“Design project: Inside a chic, industrial-inspired penthouse loft with skyline views”
Livingetc – 10.27.2020

“Two Art Collectors Take Residence in this Stunning Chicago Penthouse” Plain Magazine – 10.26.2020

“Wheeler Kearns Architects Designs a Home for This Chicago Nonprofit” Metropolis – 09.28.2020

“Lake Michigan Home pairs soft, weathering materials with black windows and doors”
Builder Magazine – 09.10.2020

“Hinsdale Residence”
Restless Living – Volume 34

“Education for Real-World Experience: Incorporating schools into mixed-use urban developments can…” ARCHITECT Magazine – 09.03.2020

“Wheeler Kearns Architects clusters gabled units for Lake Michigan house” Dezeen – 09.03.2020

“Adaptive Reuse: From Factory to Art Center in Arkansas”
gb&d Magazine – 08.04.2020

“Chicago’s Bid to Reinvent the Corner Store”
Bloomberg CityLab – 07.31.2020

“Wheeler Kearns Architects blends architectural heritage and religious symbolism at the Bernard Zell…”
The Architect’s Newspaper – 07.29.2020

“The Momentary, a cheese-factory-turned-contemporary-art-venue, reopens its doors “
The Architect’s Newspaper – 07.08.2020

“Factory Fresh”
Architectural Record – July 2020

“A Penthouse in the Sky”
DIGS – 06.26.2020

“Suns End Retreat”
Restless Living Magazine – Volume 17

“A Glassy Highland Park Abode Takes Prairie School Literally”
Chicago Magazine – 04.20.2020

“Sustainable design featured at Mansueto High School in Chicago” PRISM – 04.17.2020

“Out of a Former Cheese Factory, The Momentary Fuels a Modernist Turn in Bentonville”
Metropolis – 04.08.2020

“Decommissioned cheese factory becomes a contemporary art space Wheeler Kearns Architects designed…”
BD+C Magazine – 03.02.2020

“Inside Fashion Designer Pamella Roland’s Extraordinary Chicago Townhouse”
Galerie – 03.02.2020

“Englewood Fresh Market Will Bring Locally Sourced Produce And Ready-To-Eat Meals To 63rd Street”
Block Club Chicago – 03.02.2020

“This Former Cheese Factory Is Now a Leading Contemporary Arts Venue” Architectural Digest – 2.24.2020

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