Residential Development

Working with a number of developers with various specialties and interests, we have designed and realized numerous small-scaled projects in and around Chicago.

Diversey Boulevard

New England Avenue

Lincoln Avenue, Chicago

South Chicago

Eighteenth Street

487 West Duane Street

Marts & Valentin Architects, LLCAugust 23, 2022 at 1:08am

Marts & Valentin Architects designed an artist's studio for a Chicago bungalow. A recently retired repeat client commissioned this new at-home work space. This addition replaces and doubles the size of a poorly built enclosed back porch.

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Marts & Valentin Architects, LLCAugust 16, 2022 at 12:43am

Marts & Valentin Architects has designed this modified shoji screen, with two sliding doors, for the primary bedroom in a high-rise condominium renovation. Happily, the challenging part - finding a craftsperson to build the shoji, a refined piece of "furniture" - has been solved.

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Marts & Valentin Architects, LLCAugust 4, 2022 at 2:25am

Sam Marts from Marts & Valentin Architects leading a walking tour of "How Buildings Learn" (title borrowed from Stewart Brand). The students are part of a "summer camp" at the local library. Sam is pointing out how to "read" the different brick colors as evidence...

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Marts & Valentin Architects, LLCJuly 8, 2022 at 12:44am

Sam Marts and Aaron Valentin have worked together across our drawing boards twenty-plus years. We have decided to form a more perfect architecture partnership in order to serve our clients in Chicago and across the Midwest. Please consider us for designing your new home, new...

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Marts & Valentin Architects, LLCApril 23, 2022 at 10:58pm

Marts & Valentin Architects, LLC is luxuriating beneath the blooming cherry tree and behind a new office door at 2018 W Concord Place, Chicago.

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Marts & Valentin Architects, LLCFebruary 23, 2022 at 2:40am

Marts & Valentin Architects, LLC is working with a client, restoring her family barns to be repurposed as a not-for-profit "Glamping" facility, raising money for charity. Additions need to be made, providing a long awaited opportunity to use the form of a "quonset hut". Structures...

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