The Enterprise Companies
54 Units, 7 Stories
Kinzie St. & Grand Ave.
Chicago, Illinois

The 7-story, masonry mid-rise building acts as a visual gateway to this mixed-housing development, bringing a strongly anchored form to busy Kinzie Street. Highly articulated, the building uses offsets to deftly incorporate balconies while reducing the appearance to bulk and mass. A stone base gives way to walls made of Norman brick above the first floor, stratified by color. Closely spaced and elegantly proportioned windows allow the building to be very open while the continuous ribbons of glass above the entry add a subtle twist to the vocabulary. A steel cornice completes the building’s upward thrust and unifies it with the vocabulary of the adjacent townhomes.