Kwong Von Glinow

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Future Housing

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

Rethinking domestic living along an urban alleyway.

Washington Blvd Art Outpost

Rooftop Addition to a Chicago Greystone

Chicago Three Flat

Apartment building with all exterior circulation.

House with an Enfilade

Updating a historic home with contemporary living patterns for a growing family.

The Table Top Apartments

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

Organizing an apartment around storage.

Chicago, Chicago

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

Towers within a Tower

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

House for an Art Collector

Renovation of an historic Howard Van Doren Shaw House

House, Some of This, Some of That

A house that reinvents borrowed architectural tropes.

The 3-Families House

Housing with a form that responses to Shaoxing's historic neighborhood.

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Public/Cultural

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

Give me a minute, please!

A place of respite and relaxation along the Chicago Riverwalk.

Chinatown Gateway

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

Block Sauna 143

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

MoMA PS1 Beach Party

A reinterpretation of the MoMA PS1 courtyard as a beach

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Commercial

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

Dizzy's curates an interior vertical sensory experience.

Swiss Consulate Chicago

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

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Exhibition

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

Architectural League Prize: Objective Installation

An installation that builds on borrowing the familiar.

Smuggling Architecture

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.