Portfolio Tag: Sustainability

South Shore Beach House

South Shore Beach House was commissioned by the Chicago Park District in 2017 and serves Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood. Located on the same site as the South Shore Cultural Center landmark, the structure takes a modern but elegant turn, with clean horizontal lines inspired by the lake horizon beyond. The 2500 SF structure is a…
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MSI Pioneer Zephyr Exhibit

In 2019, the Museum of Science and Industry engaged HPZS to update the 20 year old Pioneer Zephyr exhibit to create a more dynamic visitor experience. Working closely with the exhibit designer and the MSI Exhibits Team, HPZS visually encapsulated the existing space by permanently closing the existing fire shutters between the exhibit space and…
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MSI Science Storms Exhibit

HPZS was engaged to install over 20 earth science specific permanent exhibits for the MSI Science Storms installation, collecting the seven natural phenomena into one location that occupies both the main and balcony levels of the West Gallery space. In order to accommodate the intensive infrastructure requirements, the entire main level exhibit was placed on…
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MSI Red Planet Blue Planet Exhibit

As architect of record, HPZS led an award winning team including the Hettema Group and Gallagher & Associates to design a major new exhibit utilizing all levels of the entire East Pavilion of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The joint creative concept was the winning proposal in a NASA sponsored design competition…
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VEHE FARM

The fifteen acre Vehe Farm site is one of the two centennial farm sites in Lake County, Illinois. The Vehe Farm complex consists of seven historically significant structures that, prior to their purchase by the Village of Deer Park in 1999, remained in the Vehe family farm through four generations. The Vehe Farm has been…
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Chicago Temple

The First United Methodist Church Chicago Temple was founded in 1831. The present structure, designed by Holabird and Roche, is one of Chicago’s most prominent buildings and contains a large church, offices, meeting spaces, a residence, storefront retail spaces, sixteen floors of commercial office space, a theatre and a “sky chapel." It was completed in…
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