The Cortland Residence by Nicholas Clark Architects
Nicholas Clark Architects have designed the Cortland Residence in Chicago, Illinois.
Full description after the photos….
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The Cortland Residence by Nicholas Clark Architects
The Cortland Residence is a 7,800 s.f., 3 level home located in a dense urban neighborhood for working parents and their two children.
The house was designed to provide privacy and solitude for the Owners by creating a strong connection between interior and visually protected exterior spaces. Two courtyards act as organizing elements and the focus for the interior. Privacy is achieved by the arrangement of building forms which block vision from the street. Courtyard walls are defined by planes of glass, cedar and wood panels.
In the main courtyard, water elements create a focus and patio space is positioned next to the family room which is able to expand to the exterior by opening a folding glass wall.
With a double lot (49’) site, the house matches the height of smaller neighbors and the building form broken down into discrete volumes to realize a similar scale.
Photography by Linda Oyama Bryan
Visit the website of Nicholas Clark Architects – here.
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God Via LPTrax on 21 Feb 2010 at 5:24 pm #
I Like This!!! Creative
Jon on 22 Feb 2010 at 7:25 am #
Okay- it looks nice, but 7800 sq. ft. for four people? C’mon. Let’s evaluate this carbon footprint…
Zack on 22 Feb 2010 at 11:44 am #
I live nearby, and this house is very intriguing from the street. I had always wondered about the interior of this house. It definitely lives up to the exterior. Everything from the chicago brick to the formwork holes, seems to be thought about. I would love to live here!
Lance on 22 Feb 2010 at 3:49 pm #
It’s their money Jon, they’re free to spend it on what they want. If you can afford a house like this odds are you probably do a lot of entertaining, a whole lot of it. So you need a lot of space for that. Perhaps they host charitable functions to raise money for charitable causes that a smaller house might not be able to accomodate.
Even if they don’t entertain it’s none of our business if they want to build a house that’s 20,0000 square feet.
ONYX on 22 Feb 2010 at 7:46 pm #
Yeah, I want to move in yesterday.
chip s on 22 Feb 2010 at 8:05 pm #
Really is amazing- love the colors, materials- the way it comes together. It is a great embodiment of warmer season houses but made to work in the Midwest.
Love the simplicity of the landscaping as well, the way it contrasts with the concrete. The plants aren’t native,(although natives in such a small space usually don’t work that well), but it is low maintenance and it will be pretty green throughout the year, and even the grass they selected comes up very early and stays late.
Jesse on 26 Feb 2010 at 10:25 am #
nice, especially the patio, but it leaves me a little cold. looks like a hotel, not a home.
and i think it’s a very valid point to complain about the carbon footprint of an oversized house like this. sure, it’s their money and they can spend how they like, but they should take some measures to ameliorate the impact on the community that an extravagant residence like this will impose. no big thing, just buy an offset, etc.
Willow on 18 Mar 2010 at 8:04 am #
It really does have the feel of a hotel or something commercial….even the landscaping with the concrete. It looks like they were successful in carving out the mass to bring light into the interior spaces.