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  Project Title

  Optima Chicago Center I/II

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  Winning Firm
  
  

  Optima, Inc.

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  Lead Designer
  
  

  David Hovey, Sr. FAIA

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  Awarded
  
  WINNER, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Residential, High-Rise

• Project Location
  Chicago, United States
• Project Status
  Completed
• Completion Date
  January, 2017
• General Contractor
  Optima, Inc.


• Architectural Firm
   
• Architect Firm / Studio Name
  Optima, Inc.
• Lead Architect(s)
  David Hovey, Sr. FAIA
• About Firm
  Optima is a design-driven real estate development firm with offices in IL and AZ. Since 1978 Optima has been developing, designing, building, marketing and managing striking residential communities. From the beginning, Optima aimed to reinvent housing by integrating the functions involved in new construction within one company – development, design, construction, sales and management – for a dynamic system that offers greater focus and fluidity.
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Located in Chicago, Optima Signature is 57 stories with 490 apartments, featuring views of Lake Michigan to the east and the city in all other directions. Signature has a geometrically simple and clean architectural vocabulary with a straightforward use of materials, in contrast to the historic buildings nearby. Above the podium, Signature wraps the residential levels in a transparent green glass. Deep slots are made in the curtainwall of the tower to announce the change of use from residential to amenity levels.