A Look into the Architectural Process: Wild Blossom Meadery

Our new project, Wild Blossom, will be Chicago’s first meadery. Believed to be the world’s oldest alcoholic beverage, mead is a drink made by fermenting honey with yeast. Read more about mead at Wild Blossom’s website and then engage with this great interactive display on how mead travels from bee to bottle at Maine Mead Works.…

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Linka-saurus #9: Valentine's Day

The photo above is a picture I took in Paris, purportedly the city of love. Although romantic gestures often involve elements native to the countryside (beautiful flowers, for instance), there is something romantic about cities. Even in the grayest and coldest weather, they never cease to dazzle with lights and winding streets to undiscovered places.…

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Melrose House in Apartment Therapy

Thank you to Janel Laban of Apartment Therapy for sharing our newest residential project with the community! We are big fans of AT. Check out their awesome crowd sourced post on how to keep indoor herbs healthy. See more pictures (including before & afters) on our original blog post here.

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Linka-asaurus #8: Ornithology Breakthroughs and Pedestrian Plazas

This week as the snow falls and news is released about Chicago’s BRT system, we’ve had the future of transportation on our minds (well, no surprises there.) In a less literal sense of the word, we’re also enjoying being transported to a twittering forest in Australia to hear beautiful recordings from the world’s largest natural sound…

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