Kwong Von Glinow

1

Future Housing

“In every city in the world, housing is the first question architecture deals with.”

A house that reinvents borrowed architectural tropes.

Apartment building with all exterior circulation.

Rethinking domestic living along an urban alleyway.

Re-thinking the typical three-flat along a commercial corridor.

Rooftop Addition to a Chicago Greystone

Renovation of an historic Howard Van Doren Shaw House

Apartments that use a system of modules based on the form of stacking table tops.

An alternate tower typology that uses verticality to the benefit of community.

2

Public/Cultural

“The best designed public spaces never dictate or manipulate the visitor to use a space in a certain way.”

A place of respite and relaxation along the Chicago Riverwalk.

A gateway greets visitors with a unique circular form - the universal symbol of inclusion and harmony.

A neighborhood sauna that is at once extremely public and extremely private.

A reinterpretation of the MoMA PS1 courtyard as a beach

3

Commercial

“New experiences for workplace and culinary environments energize new ways of being in commercial spaces.”

Dizzy's curates an interior vertical sensory experience.

The new Swiss Consulate Chicago brings a domestic language to the office interior at the Hancock Tower.

4

Exhibition

“By borrowing the familiar and smuggling architecture we seek to relate our projects to a wide audience.”

An installation that builds on borrowing the familiar.

Reclaiming the suburban home as a site for architecture.

Reimagining crown molding as an element for spatial sculpture.

The house erases constraints of walls and floors, and is governed by coordinates X, Y, Z.