RESIDENTIAL
Altay
Bennett
Horwitz
Paint Lake
ParkShore

Lakewood Avenue, Chicago, Illinois

Completed 1996

Renovation and addition to an Historic Residence in Chicago, Illinois. The Horwitz residence is the rebuilding and addition of 1200 square feet to a "Dutch Frame" home in the Lakewood-Balmoral neighborhood of Chicago. The original home is conventional "balloon frame": 2x4 wood stud framing going the height of the building. The addition is a contrasting modernist aluminum skin, steel and glass exterior constructed in a "balloon" steel frame of 2x6 steel tubes going, again, the height of the building. However, after reconstructing the originals building with new heating, plumbing, cement siding, fluoropon-coated aluminum clad high efficiency windows, open riser steel and wood interior stair, and electrical systems; it can be argued that the original portion of the building is more high-tech than the addition.


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