Rehab
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Project • By Landon Bone Baker Architects • Housing
IFF Access Housing
IFF Access Housing provides much needed community-based affordable rental housing for people with disabilities. Located on 25 scattered sites across a 2.5-mile footprint, the project helps stabilize Chicago’s Humboldt Park and Logan Square communities through the utilization and improvement of foreclosed and vacant properties. The project includes rehabilitation of 12 foreclosed buildings and new construction of 13 two- and three-flat buildings on city-owned infill lots.
IFF Access Housing’s goal is to preserve affordable housing while creating accessible options for people with disabilities. In Illinois, a disproportionate number of low-income disabled persons live in institutions because they lack community-based acce... More
Project • By Felix Claus Dick van Wageningen Architecten • Palaces
MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES DE BAZEL
The conversion and renovation of the former bank in the Vijzelstraat in Amsterdam to house the municipal archives was already a prestigious assignment and expectations were high. That allure is connected both with the genesis and symbolic value of the building and with the new public function which is at odds with the closed typology of a bank building.
The new design treats the original design by K.P.C. De Bazel with respect. Firstly, many original qualities of the building, which had been lost in the course of its use, were restored to their former glory. The most prominent example of this is the restoration of the two lightwells, allowing more natural light to reach the ground floor and the inside street. Other interventions and new... More