Kwong Von Glinow offers an alternative to Chicago's standard developer housing

Chicago studio Kwong Von Glinow has built Ardmore House to prove it's possible to design a high-quality home for a standard city lot.
Studio founders Lap Chi Kwong and Alison Von Glinow acted as both architects and developers for this project, their first built work since founding their studio in 2017.
Wooden trusses divide up living space on the first floor
Located on a standard residential plot in Edgewater, north Chicago, the house has a simple, vernacular form, with a rectangular f