Churchill Row is the re-development of a former manufacturing facility in Chicago’s Bucktown Neighborhood, consisting of 39 Lofts in an existing heavy timber building and 22 new construction townhomes. The townhome design, which won an AIA Distinguished Building Award in 2003, was described as follows by the judges: “Infill townhouse buildings are ubiquitous. Rare, however, is the project that boldly and successfully communicates with a historic industrial past and a modern residential neighborhood”. Projecting bays of horizontal ribbed metal panels alternate with bays of two-story glazing, providing a strong vertical rhythm that holds the street edge. Jurors were won over by the use of industrial materials that achieve a residential quality and neighborhood scale.
