Recent News

Housing Alternatives in Chicago

STL recently had the opportunity to design an alternative to collective residential living in Chicago. For this effort, STL applied two distinct and separate approaches to the design of an energy-efficient building. The first strategy incorporates passive design principles that have been employed since the first human shelters were built reliant primarily on site location and climate parameters (latitude, temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation). As a counterpoint to this approach a second strategy was proposed which relied on technologies available today to capitalize on the ability of the building to produce energy on site (photo-voltaic surfaces, wind turbines, etc) while micromanaging its use with advanced digital Building Automation Systems.

Thursday | 27 March 2008 | #

Instituto Cervantes

STL Architects is proud to announce their latest project, Instituto Cervantes of Chicago, a 20,000 square foot build-out located on the southeast corner of Ohio and Dearborn. The facility will be completed by the spring of 2007.

Thursday | 2 November 2006 | #

Tollways

The Tollways project, located in a prominent Midwest highway, revitalizes an old existing canopy establishing a completely new vehicular experience. The strongly curved volumes that form the main structure are conceived as repetitive forms which connect to each other to create a horizontal rhythm.

Wednesday | 3 May 2006 | #

VIII Spanish Architecure Biennial

STL Architects in association with the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago and The River East Arts Center is honored to present the 8th Spanish Architecture Biennial in the early spring of 2006. The organization and design of this exhibition seeks to highlight the best new work being done by young architects throughout Spain today. Including drawings, photographs, and the voice of the designers themselves, the Biennial will run from March 3 to March 10 at 435 East Illinois Street in downtown Chicago.

Sunday | 5 March 2006 | #

STL's Website after Sixteen Months

On September of 2004 STL launched a brand new website. Sixteen months have passed and in that time we have been lucky to enjoy the contributions of an incredible group of professionals. Their creativity, diligence and expertise together with the versatility of our content management system, Movable Type, have provided us with a unique window to the Web. STL would like to thank all who, in way or another, have contributed to the creation, development and maintenance of the website over the past 16 months. Special thanks go to Mari Takanashi, Sarah Kim, Dave Hampton and particularly Ben Gauslin who suggested, created, wrote, fixed, migrated, and maintained our site.