Mercy Housing Lakefront
Chicago, Illinois
Wentworth Commons
SF: 68,535
Services: Architecture, Interior Architecture, Planning, Sustainable Design
Number of Units: 51 Residential Apartments | 27 Family and 24 Single Room Units
Funding: Funding DOH, LIHTC, FHLB, HUD SHP, ICECF, DCEO
Sustainability: LEED Certified
Awards: Wentworth Commons has won 12 design awards, including Mayor Daley's Green Works Award
Kudos: “The crowning touch, literally, comes on the roof. Instead of concealing the solar panels and their supporting steel trusses, King revealed them and arranged them to compliment the buildings architecture. Set along the perimeter, their raking diagonal profile endows the four-story building with a strong rhythmic top and subtly suggests a roof gable, as if to say ‘Home, Sweet Energy Saving, Home.’” -Green Revolution Comes to Inner City, Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune
"Our buildings not only have to be sustainable from a design perspective, but from an efficiency perspective as well."
Cindy M. Holler, President, Mercy Housing Lakefront
