Brook Architecture is a peer-and industry-celebrated architectural firm proudly serving the Chicagoland area for over 30 years. We design purposeful, high-performing buildings and places where people live, learn, work, play, and heal. As a business-centered practice, we deliver enduring value to our clients and communities by uniting beautiful design with disciplined execution. We begin every project by actively listening, providing honest, straightforward guidance, and navigating the complex realities of planning, design, and construction to turn ambitious visions into thriving spaces.

Cook Murphy Architects is an award-winning architecture firm creating the highest quality commercial and residential designs throughout the greater Chicago area from downtown to the Northshore. Our expertise in high end-commercial and residential project types has also resulted in national commissions with luxurious projects across the country.

BKV Group is a holistic design firm providing a full complement of architecture, interior design, engineering, landscape architecture, and construction administration services. Our core belief is that regardless of project type, design has a profound impact on the community, and our responsibility as a multidisciplinary firm is to enhance the economic, aesthetic, social, and environmental context of the communities we shape and design. Since 1978, BKV Group has grown from a sole proprietorship into a diverse partnership with 250+ employees sharing knowledge across practice sites in Chicago, Dallas, Minneapolis, and Washington, DC, creating relevant and meaningful design solutions that allow our clients’ dreams to become a reality.

S+R is a resourceful, intuitive architecture firm focused on enriching life through design. Our approach is confident and collaborative; we emphasize defining problems before solving them and challenging underlying assumptions to help our clients transform dreams into reality. Our process is engaging, our services are comprehensive, and we leverage our creative vision and expertise to produce solutions reflecting the unique opportunities and limitations of each project.

AltusWorks is a technically oriented architectural design firm which applies a high level of expertise to the creative problem-solving required for the restoration, adaptive reuse, rehabilitation, and expansion of existing and historic structures.

Stephen Rankin Associates provides high-quality architectural design services in a professional manner that achieves attractive, well-reasoned design while satisfying the programmatic and economic requirements of the project. We thrive on the art of problem-solving, and believe that the inherent push-pull between pragmatism and idealism works to foster creative design solutions.

At MXD Architects, we believe great architecture serves people and place. Our work blends uses and scales—residential, commercial, and civic—to create lively, walkable environments. From adaptive reuse to new mixed-use developments, we approach every project with creativity, collaboration, and respect for context.

Founded in 2006, Baumann is a transatlantic organization with our headquarters in Washington, D.C. and offices in Chicago, IL and Frankfurt, Germany. Baumann provides energy efficiency and sustainability consulting services for the entire life cycle of buildings. Our services range from facility condition assessments, energy audits, and feasibility studies to the development of design concepts. We offer building commissioning, monitoring and optimization of building performance, and consulting for green building certifications.

SOM is a global collective of architects, engineers, and planners designing buildings, interiors, and public spaces that push the boundaries of technical and environmental innovation. From several of the world's tallest structures to developing new low-carbon building materials, SOM's designs anticipate change in the way we live, work, and build.

Architecture for Public Benefit is a mission-driven design practice creating beautiful, thoughtful spaces that expand access to good design. We collaborate with nonprofits, cultural organizations, public agencies, and communities to shape projects that reflect shared needs and values. Through award-winning work and inclusive community processes, we deliver architecture rooted in the public good.