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  • Sustainable Action Plan

    The mission of the AIA 2030 Commitment is to support the 2030 Challenge and transform the practice of architecture in a way that is holistic, firm-wide, project-based, and data-driven. As a signatory of the AIA 2030 Commitment, creating a three-year Sustainable Action Plan (SAP) is the first step. SAPs establish a long-term firm-wide strategy that…

  • Life Sciences

    Eckenhoff Saunders collaborates with healthcare, higher education, and corporate research and development groups to create engaging and functional laboratory environments. Our experience in these sectors of architectural practice gives us a broad knowledge base that easily translates over from one area of practice to the other. We are well versed in defining required automation levels,…

  • Chicago Riverwalk

    Due to the Chicago Riverwalk’s popularity and growth and its architectural sightseeing river tours hosted by the Chicago Architecture Center, Chicago’s First Lady Cruises retained Eckenhoff Saunders to unify five individual trailers into a single ticket purchasing venue. A simple vocabulary of horizontal wood slats evokes a ship’s hull, while prominently branding the First Lady…

  • 345 N. Morgan

    Site prep work is underway at 345 N. Morgan, an 11-story, 230,000 sf ground-up commercial office development in Chicago’s Fulton Market by Sterling Bay. Chicago YIMBY “Yes In My Backyard” recently featured mock-up photos of the site. YIMBY covers the region’s evolving architecture, construction, and real estate. You can also learn more about 345 N. Morgan on our…

  • Masters Joins Firm

    Please join us in welcoming Erin Masters, NCARB, NCIDQ, LEED AP, to our growing firm! Erin is an architect and an interior designer with a robust background working with various project types for higher education, civic, healthcare, institutional, and commercial clients. Before joining Eckenhoff Saunders, she held multiple roles as a project architect, project designer,…

  • Dickson Joins Team

    Eckenhoff Saunders is pleased to welcome Jonathan Dickson, AIA, to our growing firm. Jonathan specializes in healthcare design and has over 20 years of experience in planning, design, and construction administration. A licensed Illinois architect, Jonathan’s expertise includes project management for replacing hospitals and multi-phase renovations/additions for existing facilities. Departmental experiences range from ambulatory care…

  • Office Snapshots

    InnerWorkings (INWK), is a global marketing execution firm serving Fortune 500 brands across a wide range of industries. INWK partnered with Eckenhoff Saunders to deliver a turn-key project and to re-imagine its headquarters located in Chicago. Learn more about the transformation of their office led by the Eckenhoff Saunders design team on the Office Snapshots…

  • Education Snapshots

    The Francis W. Parker School Kovler Family Libary was recently featured in Education Snapshots. Desiring to promote their progressive form of education with an equally innovative library space, this historic private school in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago undertook a complete renovation of its outdated facility. To learn more about this exciting project, please visit…

  • Outstanding Project Award

    The Spring 2020 Education Facilities Design Awards edition of LEARNING BY DESIGN magazine has been released featuring Sixty-Seven (67) recently completed educational facility design and construction projects from early childhood, middle school, high school, specialized education and higher education college and university environments. All published projects were judged, scored, and granted facility design awards based…

  • Health Facility Management

    ESA Principal Mark Nichols, AIA, FACHA, LEED AP, discusses how advanced planning, design, and construction technology helps drive building project efficiency in Health Facilities Management’s 2020 Hospital Construction Survey. Article excerpt:   Along with BIM, prefabrication, 3D projection mapping, modular construction, and 360-degree photography are among the most-cited technologies for design and construction projects, according to the survey.…