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Stormwater Management: Permeable Paving & Rainwater Harvesting
Stormwater that collects on roadways and sidewalks carries a host of environmentally damaging pollutants. You can help to minimize stormwater runoff by replacing impervious surfaces with permeable pavement and adding rain gardens and rain barrels.
Backyard Chickens Coop Design: Chicken Tractor
Our sustainable chicken coop design provides a modern, tiny home for Chicago backyard chickens.
Here’s Your Delicious Pizza: Wood Fired Pizza Oven Design
We designed and constructed a wood fired pizza oven for our interior courtyard using recycled brick from the building site to create the base.
Former Butcher Shop Gets Modern Corten Addition
Our adaptive reuse project in Chicago’s Ukrainian Village is complete. Photos and process details inside.
A Glossary of Tub Terms for Bathroom Renovations
Flip through our tub terminology guide to get familiar with different kinds of bathtubs before your next bathroom renovation.
7 Upgrades for A Modern, Spa-like bathroom—For Everyone
From nixing visual clutter to increasing openness even in small spaces, our post goes over our favorite ways to jazz up a bathroom to make it feel more hotel-like.
Logan Certified Mixed Use Update: Brisch Brick, A Local Material
Today’s local material: Brisch Bricks, made from Chicago clay.
THE (STILL RELEVANT) ROLE OF HAND DRAWING: How Moss Uses Drawings in Design & Architecture
Take a look at how we use hand drawing in our design process to communicate and innovate better.
Home is Where the Hearth is: How We Warmed up an Industrial Loft
A revisit of our Erie Street Loft and the fireplace that warmed up its industrial loft feel.
Furniture Feature: the X Task Desk
This locally sourced table is the foundation of our work here at Moss HQ in a very literal sense. A pair of X Task desks face each other, supporting the main workstations of our office. We can personally attest that they offer plenty of space for computers, files and even a full spread architectural drawings. (Note: like all the other furniture at […]
Moss in Detail: Wood Wall Panel Systems
The wood wall panel is a detail we created for the Uptown Family Vision and are now revisiting in a residential remodel project. Today: how and why!