“The $47 million development will see the construction of a six-story, 78 unit mixed-income building designed by Valerio Dewalt Train Associates.” - Lukas Kluger, Urbanize Chicago
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“Valerio Dewalt Train has promoted Rebecca Snow to the position of director of interior design. Snow joined the firm in 2018.” - Wilson Barlow, Interior Design Magazine.
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Chicago, Denver, Palo Alto, and San Francisco—Valerio Dewalt Train has promoted Alexandra Polk, Andrew Paul, Jake Emery, Matt Gilbert, and Noah Bentley to the position of Associate within the Architectural studio and Rebecca Snow to the position of Director of Interior Design, announced the firm’s principals.
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“Sustainable features like the wastewater wetland system are put on display, demonstrating how it takes inspiration from the marshes' natural processes to treat the building’s blackwater.” - VDT via World-Architects
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“This focus on renovation is necessary to continue to anchor the memory of those neighborhoods.” - Zach Mortice, Bloomberg
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“The Ford Calumet Environmental Center embodies how nature and the built environment can exist in harmony. The diverse array of plant species on the site filter the building’s blackwater, instead of diverting it back into the already overwhelmed Chicago sewer system.” - Friends of the Chicago River
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The Ford Calumet Environmental Center on Chicago’s southeast side was “best of the Best” in the Educational Building and Green Building categories.
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“With a U-shaped massing, the courtyard style building sits atop a two-story podium with an amenity roof deck facing south.” - Lucas Kugler, Urbanize Chicago
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Media Objectives did the graphic design found around the office building, like the wayfinding signage that has colourful numbers to mark the different floors. - Laura Hensley, Canadian Business
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The Ford Calumet Environmental Center on Chicago’s southeast side was honored in the Spaces and Places category.
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“With Valerio Dewalt Train Associates in charge of the design, the entirely residential building will stand 12 stories high.” - Lucas Kluger, Urbanize Chicago
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“A move to San Francisco’s South of Market Area gives Glassdoor's Bay Area employees a central location that better represented the firm’s fun, vibrant culture while embodying the city’s dynamic history and personality.” - Office Snapshots editors
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“Big Marsh Park is the Chicago Park District’s largest reclamation project. Once a natural landscape damaged by slag from steel mills, new restorative efforts have set the park on a path for industry and nature to coexist.” - International Design Awards
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“The use of Cor-Ten steel on the outside not only references the area’s industrial past, but gives the structure a kind of functional integrity, underscoring that its purpose is to educate and interpret, not to entertain.” - Thomas Connors, Inside Hook
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“The environmental center, which opened to the public in September, set a “precedent for a new, sustainable future throughout the Calumet Region.’” - Maxwell Evans, Book Club Chicago
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CNDA 1st Place Winner of The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Architectural Excellence in Community Design: Valerio Dewalt Train & Media-Objectives for the Ford Calumet Environmental Center.
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“A museum honoring the contributions of Chicago artists to blues music also will be launched inside the building, aligning with efforts to rebrand Chicago Avenue as Soul City Corridor by the Austin African American Business Network Association.“ -Pascal Sabino, Book Club Chicago
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“With Valerio Dewalt Train Associates in charge of the residential portion of the development, a new six-story residential building is planned for the vacant portion of the block, directly west of Laramie State Bank.“ -Lukas Kugler, Urbanize Chicago
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“The most prominent change to the exterior will be the addition of a new entry and ticketing pavilion surrounding the Man with Fish sculpture outside of the accessible entry.“ -Lukas Kugler, Urbanize Chicago
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