Range Design & Architecture

01/30/2026

NDC HQ has been nominated in the Offices Category of the 2026 ArchDaily Building of the Year Award.

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05/06/2025

NDCHQ is a finalist in the Commercial Renovations and Additions Category of the 13th Annual A+ . Link in bio.

01/25/2025

This expansion of an existing structure into a furniture design studio and showroom aims to unify a space to make and house furniture, address daylighting and energy performance considerations for a south-facing facade, and build upon Chicago's historical pattern of common brick structures with face-brick fronts.

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11/11/2024

Cosmology of Yard, 2010. Artist Theaster Gates.

Amid recent plans to renovate the Breuer Building (the third and former home of the Whitney Museum of American Art), we are reminded of the installation for the 2010 Whitney Biennial.

Situated within the sunken courtyard at Madison Avenue & E 75th St., the artwork is composed of five elements constructed primarily from wooden wareboards from the Wrigley chewing gum factory (a material used for several of Gates’ artworks during this period). The temple, the largest of the five elements, was developed as a modular assemblage of wareboards and wood framing covered by a translucent corrugated roof. The materiality, form and intimate scale evoke qualities of fishing shacks, tea houses and similarly modest structures of interest to Gates. The temple offered a meditative focus whilst one reflected on the totality of the installation.

Range assisted Gates in the creation of the temple, including its design, construction and disassembly in Chicago, and then reassembly at the museum. Artist assisted Gates on crafting the throne, another of the five elements, located across the courtyard as a sort of counterpoint to the temple. During the biennial, the installation was further activated by art historian Dara Epison and artists derekchan and .

Image 2 by Bill Ocutt, all others by Range.

06/25/2023

Located along the North Branch of the Chicago River, this home for a curator, a musician and their family called for an arrangement of spaces to house an eclectic collection of art, furniture and musical accoutrement alongside a desire for an abundance of natural light, moments of material richness and a connection to the yard overlooking the water. More at rangedesign.com

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06/24/2023

Located along the North Branch of the Chicago River, this home for a curator, a musician and their family called for an arrangement of spaces to house an eclectic collection of art, furniture and musical accoutrement alongside a desire for an abundance of natural light, moments of material richness and a connection to the yard overlooking the water. More at rangedesign.com

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06/23/2023

Located along the North Branch of the Chicago River, this home for a curator, a musician and their family called for an arrangement of spaces to house an eclectic collection of art, furniture and musical accoutrement alongside a desire for an abundance of natural light, moments of material richness and a connection to the yard abutting the water. More at rangedesign.com

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03/09/2023

Family of Forms is a multi-family housing proposal for the Come Home: Missing Middle Housing Design Initiative organized by .

Our approach to affordable middle income housing focuses on high-value amenity space, carefully considered construction efficiencies, unit variability to respond to market forces and formal diversity that enhances the character of the block.

03/07/2023

Family of Forms is a multi-family housing proposal for the Come Home: Missing Middle Housing Design Initiative organized by .

Our approach to affordable middle income housing focuses on high-value amenity space, carefully considered construction efficiencies, unit variability to respond to market forces and formal diversity that enhances the character of the block.
More at rangedesign.com

03/04/2023

Inspired by views to the 606 Trail from the existing house and the years of our studio working alongside it, this single-family residence situates living spaces on the upper level and bedrooms below, reorienting the house toward the trail.

02/25/2023

Inspired by views to the 606 Trail from the existing house and years of our studio working alongside it, this single-family residence situates living spaces on the upper level and bedrooms below, reorienting the house toward the trail.

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02/12/2023

This single-family residence flips the conventional Chicago living and sleeping configuration, orienting views from living spaces toward the 606 Trail and providing an abundance of natural light.