Recreation / Preservation + Restoration / Adaptive Reuse / Expansion + Modification
AIRE Ancient Baths Chicago
Aire Ancient Baths
19,000 SF renovation
Chicago, Illinois
Box Studios, Blue Depend
Structures Construction
Architecture Masterprize, Honorable Mention in Interior Design, Hospitality, 2021
SEAOI, Excellence In Structural Engineering William and Alys Lavicka Award, 2020
Creation of this Greco-Roman style bathhouse in this 19th century former factory building highlights the structure. But the interior work also required sculpting of the structure, including adding and removing floor framing, installing new stairs, and wedging new pools between existing foundations at the lowest level of this 8-story heavy timber framed building. Winner of the 2020 SEAOI Lavicka Award for Small Firm/Small Project.
(Top photo and first seven photos below: Juan Serrano Corbella; Last four photos below: Fernando Saz)