New Office Works

1516 W Carroll Ave Adaptive Reuse Building

1516 W Carroll Ave Adaptive Reuse Building 

New Office + Bureau Gemmell

1516 W Carroll Ave Adaptive Reuse Building
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LEAD TEAM
Lynsey Sorrell

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Lynsey Sorrell (Bureau Gemmell), Elliott Riggen (New Office)

INTERIOR DESIGN
Meg Mcmorrow, Warren Aftahi

DESIGN TEAM
Elliott Riggen

ENGINEERING & CONSULTING > STRUCTURAL
Goodfriend Magruder

ENGINEERING & CONSULTING > MEP
Btr Engineers

GENERAL CONSTRUCTING
Lg Construction

PHOTOGRAPHS
Annabell Ren, Jiachen Wang

AREA
30000 Ft²

YEAR
2024

LOCATION
Chicago, United States

CATEGORY
Offices, Adaptive Reuse, Commercial Architecture

1516 W Carroll Ave Adaptive Reuse Building
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1516 W Carroll Ave Adaptive Reuse Building
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1516 W Carroll Ave Adaptive Reuse Building
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This 1920s warehouse and attached office building have seen many iterations. This is the second time Bureau Gemmell has worked with this client, this round joined by consulting architect New Office.

The renovation project expands the building making way for new tenants and programs by adding a second floor inside the existing high-bay warehouse structure.

1516 W Carroll Ave Adaptive Reuse Building
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1516 W Carroll Ave Adaptive Reuse Building
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The project includes a ground-floor restaurant with sidewalk seating, a coffee bar, and a retail store; a second-story food innovation film studio and test kitchens, private dining space, office space, and event space; and finally the third-floor rooftop farm and greenhouses.

The project also includes new vertical circulation elements, new floor and roof structures, and modernization of building systems and windows.

1516 W Carroll Ave Adaptive Reuse Building
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1516 W Carroll Ave Adaptive Reuse Building
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Guided by the honest expression of a restrained material palette the different eras of construction are revealed.

Sensitive acoustic treatments and a desire to see and interact with the raw materials create a cohesive building despite the different programs and tenants.

1516 W Carroll Ave Adaptive Reuse Building
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1516 W Carroll Ave Adaptive Reuse Building
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The project keeps exposed many of the architectural and structural elements from the earlier projects which become features in the many spaces.


1516 W Carroll Ave Adaptive Reuse Building
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1516 W Carroll Ave Adaptive Reuse Building
© Jiachen Wang
1516 W Carroll Ave Adaptive Reuse Building
© Jiachen Wang
1516 W Carroll Ave Adaptive Reuse Building
© Annabell Ren


1516 W Carroll Ave Adaptive Reuse Building
Ground Floor Plan
1516 W Carroll Ave Adaptive Reuse Building
1st Floor Plan
1516 W Carroll Ave Adaptive Reuse Building
Roof Floor Plan

1516 W Carroll Ave Adaptive Reuse Building
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New Office Works
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