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Kwong Von Glinow Design Office

Chicago, Illinois, United States • 2 Employees
Architecture & Planning

Kwong Von Glinow Design Office is an award-winning design office co-founded by Lap Chi Kwong and Alison Von Glinow in Chicago in 2016. Their firm was named the recipient of the 2016 Chicago Prize by the Chicago Architecture Club for their design titled The Grand Lattices which proposed pedestrian viewing decks along Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. Kwong Von Glinow also won 1st prize for the 2017 New York Affordable Housing Challenge for their design proposal titled Table Top Apartments. Their projects have been featured on ArchDaily, Bustler, Archinect, Afasia, Harvard GSD Grounded Visionary, and the Chicago Tribune. Wallpaper* Magazine named Kwong Von Glinow Design Office as one of the top twenty emerging practices in the world in the 2017 July Issue. Both Lap Chi and Alison are on the Board of the Directors of the Chicago Architecture Club. Alison is a Forefront Fellow at New York's Urban Design Forum. Kwong Von Glinow Design Office works on architectural projects from the scale of single-room renovations to multi-story new construction. The founding partner's wide scale of experience and knowledge allow them to bring their design talents to any scale project. The duo approach each project looking for the missed opportunity of what they are starting with - whether it is an underpass in Chicago or a blank slate of land for a single family house - everything for them has a design potential. The architecture of their office creates physical spaces that people enjoy spending time in. Their motto "Enjoy Architecture" is felt in each of their projects.Both partners earned their Masters of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. They have worked for Pritzker prize winning architects Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland, where they worked on internationally significant projects like the M+ Museum in Hong Kong, Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver, Canada, and Chelsea Stadium in London, England.