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An award-winning residential and commercial architecture firm based in Chicago's Avondale neighborhood.

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A work in progress. A single-family renovation/addition project in Portage Park for a multi-generational family. An expansion of the second floor creates more spacious bedrooms while revisions to the first-floor result in a large gathering space for large family gathering.
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#chiarchitecture #residentialdesign #wip #residentialarchitecture #aiarchitecture taken in Portage Park by @34ten

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A new week, another photography shoot. Seeley photography coming in October.

General Contractor: @dbloombergconstruction
Windows: @weather_shield
Photography: @jamesjohnjetel

#chicagoarchitecture #chicagoarchitect #chiarchitecture #chicago #beautifularchitecture taken in North Center by @34ten

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More scenes from our shoot at The Grace Street Treehouse last week. We had an incredible team documenting this beautiful home. Thank you to @alacartestudios for amazing styling, @jamesjohnjetel the 34-TEN team (Jarrett and Fanny). A special thank you to @fromgoodtograce for letting us invade your home for not one, but two days!

GC: @artisticconstruction
Kitchen Cabinetry: @heidkampdesign

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#aiarchitecture #architecturestudio #chicagoarchitect #beautifularchitecture #localarchitecture taken in North Center by @34ten

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Some scenes from our shoot at The Grace Steet Treehouse last week. With this renovation, an existing but underused light well was reimagined as the home’s defining feature. Enlarged glazing and a reconfigured plan —primarily transforming a former mechanical room into the children’s “treehouse” study — now allow daylight to cascade through all three levels in a single vertical gesture.
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GC: @artisticconstruction
Custom Millwork: @kopec_carpentry
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#aiarchitecture #architecturestudio #chicagoarchitect #beautifularchitecture #localarchitecture taken in North Center by @34ten

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🎉 Tomorrow is the last day to vote for The Lantern House in @aiachicago Lerch Bates People’s Choice Awards! Link in Bio!

34-TEN is proud to be named a Renovation/Adaptive Reuse, Single Family Residential FINALIST in AIA Chicago’s Lerch Bates (@lerchbates) People’s Choice Awards, presented in partnership with @chiarchitecture, and we need you to VOTE by Wednesday, September 16 at 11:59pm!

This 4,000-square-foot renovation reimagines an 1890s two-flat on a tighter-than-standard Chicago lot (24’ x 94’) into a creatively programmed live-work residence.

Join us as this award is conferred at Designight 2026 on Thursday, October 1, 2026 - all are welcome!
🎟 Info + tickets: AIAChicago.org/Designight2026
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GC: @artisticconstruction
Custom Furniture, Cabinetry, & Millwork: @navillus_woodworks
Lighting Design: @hoiland.studios
Landscape Architecture: @topiarius
Custom Wide Plank Floors: @carlislewideplankfloors
Photography: @mikeyschwartz
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@aiachicago @lerchbates @chiarchitecure #designight2026 #aiachicago #aiarchitecture #chicagoarchitecture #beautifularchitecture taken in Chicago, Illinois by @34ten

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🎉 Vote for The Lantern House in @aiachicago Lerch Bates People’s Choice Awards! Link in Bio!

34-TEN is proud to be named a Renovation/Adaptive Reuse, Single Family Residential FINALIST in AIA Chicago’s Lerch Bates (@lerchbates) People’s Choice Awards, presented in partnership with @chiarchitecture, and we need you to VOTE by Wednesday, September 16 at 11:59pm!

This 4,000-square-foot renovation reimagines an 1890s two-flat on a tighter-than-standard Chicago lot (24’ x 94’) into a creatively programmed live-work residence.

Join us as this award is conferred at Designight 2026 on Thursday, October 1, 2026 - all are welcome!
🎟 Info + tickets: AIAChicago.org/Designight2026
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GC: @artisticconstruction
Custom Furniture, Cabinetry, & Millwork: @navillus_woodworks
Lighting Design: @hoiland.studios
Landscape Architecture: @topiarius
Custom Wide Plank Floors: @carlislewideplankfloors
Photography: @mikeyschwartz
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@aiachicago @lerchbates @chiarchitecture
#designight2026 #AIAChicago #aiarchitecture #chicagoarchitecture #beautifularchitecture taken in Chicago, Illinois by @34ten

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A glorious shot of the Grace Treehouse kitchen and all the steps necessary to get to the finish line. Final photography coming this fall.
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GC: @artisticconstruction
Kitchen design: @rebelhousedesign
Kitchen Cabinetry Fabrication: @heidkampdesign
Landscape Architect: @theoutsidedesignstudio
Glass Door System: @arcadia_custom

#aiarchitecture #architecturestudio #chicagoarchitect #beautifularchitecture #localarchitecture taken in North Center by @34ten

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We enjoy the challenge of a project with unique requirements. We’ve worked with a number of musically inclined clients over the years and have designed home rehearsal and recording studios. Studios have many technical requirements and can be incredible spaces if approached thoughtfully and holistically. At the Lantern House, we integrated lighting and acoustical strategies with our friends at @hoiland.studios. The resulting space is minimal and calming, the perfect space to inspire creativity.
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GC: @artisticconstruction
Lighting Design: @hoiland.studios
Acoustical Ceiling: @hush.acoustics
Acoustical Wall Paneling: @woodupp_com
Photography: @mikeyschwartz
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#aiarchitecture #architecturestudio #chicagoarchitect #beautifularchitecture #localarchitecture taken in Ukrainian Village, Chicago by @34ten

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Construction is in full swing on Leavitt Street. Some sights and sounds from our North Center single-family renovation project. 🏗️🧱🔨
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#aiarchitecture #architecturestudio #chicagoarchitect #beautifularchitecture #localarchitecture taken in North Center by @34ten

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This week, we obtained a highly anticipated building permit for a single-family home in Roscoe Village. Originally envisioning a traditional gabled form, the design evolved into a restrained, flat-roofed masonry residence that draws from Chicago’s culture of brick building without imitating it. A light-toned modern brick façade and carefully proportioned openings give the house a quiet confidence, while a complementary perforated brick weave wall provides privacy and softens the street edge.

General Contractor: @formedspace
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#aiarchitecture #architecturestudio #chicagoarchitect #beautifularchitecture #localarchitecture taken in Roscoe Village by @34ten

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A first and second floor plan showing the transformation of a classic 1930s Tudor residence in Park Ridge. A thoughtfully scaled rear addition at the first floor expands the kitchen, and a second-floor addition introduces a new primary suite above the garage-turned-family
room, seamlessly expanding the home’s living space.

A new rear deck is carefully designed to preserve and celebrate an existing mature oak tree with a new masonry garage located at the rear of the property.
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#floorplan #aiaarchitecture #localarchitecture #parkridge #workin progress taken in Park Ridge, Illinois by @34ten

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Introducing the Alta Vista Terrace project, located in Chicago’s landmarked row of turn-of-the-century townhomes.

Outside, the block’s Victorian character remains fully intact: bracketed cornices, bay windows, carved limestone.

The work ahead is restraint as much as renovation — preserving what made this a landmark while making it livable again.

Architect: @34ten

Bracketed cornice work, a curved bay window hood, hand-carved limestone trim — original to this Alta Vista Terrace townhome.

The bones of the house, still original.

Herringbone parquet under decades of wear, drapery and finishes untouched since installed.

Before renovation: Original crystal chandelier hanging over the stairwell.

Brick-pattern tile in the kitchen meets original herringbone oak parquet at the threshold — a small detail that says a lot about how this house was built and lived in. Both original, both worth keeping in mind as the renovation moves through each room. taken in Alta Vista Terrace District by @34ten

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