New England Avenue, Chicago

This 19-unit development at New England and North avenues on Chicago’s West Side features a classic corner store.

Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.September 27, 2020 at 2:33pm

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.September 20, 2020 at 4:54pm

Sam Marts, the architect, is also an artist and designed this mural for the east side of the Bucktown/Wicker Park Library, overlooking the Bucktown Green. The mural was approached as an architectural feature, stretching across the entire width of the building. Care was taken to…

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.September 6, 2020 at 11:19pm

A few years ago, Sam Marts Architects & Planners participated in a design Charrette to imagine a new “village” on the east side of Grand Rapids, Michigan, along the Grand River.
The village residential areas were conceived as “older”, 1920s streetcar neighborhoods similar…

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.August 27, 2020 at 11:50pm

A few years ago, Sam Marts Architects & Planners participated in a design Charrette to imagine a new “village” on the east side of Grand Rapids, Michigan, along the Grand River.
An important part of creating a traditional village is to make “edges”….

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.August 24, 2020 at 1:18am

A few years ago, Sam Marts Architects & Planners participated in a design Charrette to imagine a new “village” on the east side of Grand Rapids, Michigan, along the Grand River.
The village was imagined to have its own subscription farmer’s market in…

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.August 16, 2020 at 11:58pm

A few years ago, Sam Marts Architects & Planners participated in a design Charrette to imagine a new “village” on the east side of Grand Rapids, Michigan, along the Grand River.
This perspective of a “hamlet” borrows heavily from English Picturesque imagery to…

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