Skidmore, Owings & Merill LLP (SOM)
Scope of services: Architectural & Urban planning, Interior design and engineering.
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Commercial, Institutional, hospitality and Health care.
Locations of Built Projects: Worldwide.
Style of work: Modern and Contemporary design. They have designed several of the tallest buildings in the world.
Website: som.com
With a portfolio spanning thousands of projects across 50 countries, SOM is one of the largest architectural firms in the world.
Space Architects + Planners
Scope of services: Architecture, Urban and Interior Design.
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Restaurant, Commercial and Institutional.
Locations of Built Projects: Mainly in Chicago, Illinois.
Style of work: Renovations and adaptive reuse. Light metallic structures and brick facades
Website: spacearchplan.com
Square Root Architecture + Design.
Scope of services: Architecture, Planning and Interior Design.
Types of Built Projects: Mainly Residential.
Locations of Built Projects: Majority of their projects are in Chicago.
Style of work: Prefabricated homes, high-performance and sustainable building design.
Website: squarerootarch.com
Root Architecture + Design have two Houzz “Best of” Service Awards.
Studio Concepcion Architects (SCA)
Scope of services: Architecture, Planning and Design.
Types of Built Projects: Mainly Residential.
Locations of Built Projects: Majority of their projects are in Chicago, Illinois.
Style of work: Modern and Contemporary architecture incorporating cutting edge technology into the designs, often utilizing renewable, green and sustainable design elements.
Website: concepcionarchitects.com
Studio Concepcion Architects won the Arts International/IIE Prize in Architecture.
Studio Dwell
Scope of services: Architecture, Planning and interior Design.
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Commercial, Office and Educational.
Locations of Built Projects: Mainly in the state of Illinois.
Style of work: Modern architecture with the use of simple forms and light to produce quality designs.
Website: studiodwell.com
The firm recently won the Congress for New Urbanism Grand Prize for their contribution to a neighborhood development in Detroit.
Studio Gang
Scope of services: Architecture& Urban Design.
Types of Built Projects: Aviation, Commercial, Office, Cultural and Educational.
Locations of Built Projects: Mainly in the state of Illinois.
Style of work: Contemporary Architecture, Flexible forms & parametric design.
Website: studiogang.com
Studio Gang has won numerous awards, including the 2016 Architizer A+ Firm of the Year Award and the 2013 National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Vladimir Radutny Architects
Scope of services: Architectural, Interior & Furniture Design.
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Office, Hospitality and Institutional.
Locations of Built Projects: Most of their projects are in Chicago.
Style of work: Experimental and problem solving design.
Website: radutny.com
Vladimir Radutny Architects received the 2016 AIA Chicago Small Project Award, Citation of Merit Award Unit 3E.
von Weise Associates
Scope of services: Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Commercial, Institutional and Office.
Locations of Built Projects: Chicago, Illinois.
Style of work: Luxurious and Industrial design looking interiors with colorful and playful design.
Website: vonweiseassociates.com
von Weise Associates won the 2012 Illinois AIA Mies van der Rohe Citation of Merit Award.
Wheeler Kearns Architects
Scope of services: Architectural & Interior Design, Landscape and Urban design.
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Educational, Cultural and Commercial
Locations of Built Projects: Majority of their projects are built across various cities in the state of Illinois with some other work in Michigan.
Style of work: Very flexible design that varies from Contemporary to Modern.
Website: wkarch.com
AIA Chicago Firm of the Year in 2016, Wheeler and Kearns designs award-winning single-family homes and a wide array of commercial projects, and is also well-known for their philanthropic efforts.
White & Company
Scope of services: Architectural design, engineering and construction.
Types of Built Projects: Commercial, Educational and infrastructure.
Locations of Built Projects: Majority of their projects are built across various cities in Illinois.
Style of work: Eclectic, Contemporary and high-tech.
Website: wightco.com
