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Kwong Von Glinow's Ardmore House flips the residential script

2021-01-06T18:39:00-05:00

Kwong Von Glinow, the Chicago-based practice and 2018 Architectural League Prize winner, recently completed an intriguing residential project in the northern section of their hometown.

The 3,100-square-foot Ardmore House reverses the conventional section of a three-story home by arranging the bedrooms on the first floor and the light-filled communal areas on the second.

Photo: James Florio Photography

"A curved double-height atrium runs lengthwise from front to back doors, creating an interior courtyard that vertically connects the common areas on the first and second floors," explains the project description. "Defined by a large picture window and a curving wall, the courtyard offers an informal multi-purpose area where residents can relax and their children can play."

Photo: James Florio Photography

"The design of the home balances privacy and openness on the urban site. Off the courtyard’s curving inner wall lie all of the home’s bedrooms, pushed awa...

Kwong Von Glinow Design Office proposes a modular pavilion for long-term use and mobility

2017-10-30T19:17:00-04:00

The US-based Kwong Von Glinow Design Office, who have won a few competitions for their creative solutions to affordable housing, have released a proposal for a temporary pavilion in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District Nursery Park. Titled the Primitive Pavilion, the project riffs on Marc-Antoine Laugier’s 18th-century idea of the “primitive hut.”

Courtesy of Kwong Von Glinow Design Office.

Responding to Laugier's theory that man wants nothing but shade from the sun and shelter from storms, the architects envision their pavilion as "a deep roofscape set upon elemental columns, harboring man between earth and sky first at West Kowloon and, in the future, at other parts of Hong Kong."

Courtesy of Kwong Von Glinow Design Office.

Pavilions of the 21st century often have a short lifespan, and Kwong Von Glinow offer theirs a longer future by designing a modular system that allows for efficient reassembly in other locations. Drawing on nature's...

Kwong Von Glinow Design Office is named the recipient of the 2016 Chicago Prize

2017-03-23T16:37:00-04:00

The Chicago Architecture Club named Lake Forest's Kwong Von Glinow Design Office the recipient of the 2016 Chicago Prize. This is a biennial prize given for the design of an international competition. This year's competition, titled On the Edge, asked architects and designers to rethink Lake Shore Drive's connection to Chicago's waterfront. Kwong Von Glinow Design Office's proposal, titled Lattices on the Drive, seeks to enhance the pedestrian's relationship to Lake Shore Drive. At each underpass which leads to the Lake, an access point at the media brings pedestrians up to a steel-frame viewing deck from which they can see the Lake, the city, and of course, Lake Shore Drive. An exhibition of their winning proposal will be in the lobby of the Chicago Architecture Foundation through June.

Lap Chi Kwong and Alison Von Glinow co-founded Kwong Von Glinow Design Office in Chicago in 2016. Both partners earned their Masters of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of D...