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Planning Your Project
You have desires and hopes for your project, now what?
Planning your project does not have to be your burden. Many clients have expressed that they thought THEY needed to know what they want BEFORE hiring the architect. Actually, working with an architect early gives you the best results!
Our Pre-Design Services
Contacting Coyne + Associates Architects early allows us to help you sort through your project needs and goals and work with you to prioritize the design possibilities according to your input. Our experience provides you with the expert framework to organize the various levels of decisions to move your project in the right direction.
What You Need
The only thing you need to get started is the desire and our assistance.
The solution to your requirements may include:
- · New Construction.
- · New Site.
- · Addition to Existing Building.
- · Remodeling and/or Renovation to Existing Building.
What We Do
- · Work with you to identify specific goals.
- · Identify zoning, code, planning, budget, and design constraints.
- · Present you with solutions.
- · Work with others for approval, if required (zoning, boards, neighbors, stock holders, etc.).
- · Develop solutions into becoming a physical reality.
- · Maintain focus on your goals and priorities through and beyond construction activities.
Now What?
Whether you are ready to “pull the trigger” on your project or if the project is still in the “embryo stage”, please contact us for advice. There is no cost to you for an initial call or meeting. We can help you get pointed in the right direction!
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Architect of the Year Award
Coyne + Associates Architects would like to thank Chicago Public Schools for recently presenting us with the Capital Improvement 2013 Architect of the Year award for our work on the CICS Chicago Quest school project. Awards don’t come along very often in any walk of life, so we would like to express our gratitude at being recognized, as well as thank the Design Management team at CannonDesign, the Project Director team at Jacobs, the construction management team at Lend-Lease, our sub-consultants Prism, GRAEF, IRCA, and Cosentini, as well the K.R. Miller Contractors team and subcontractors for all working together to pull off a great project.
The experience on the Chicago Quest school project is just another reason why our firm is very passionate about working with school districts and charter schools to upgrade schools and create outstanding learning environments for the children of Chicago. The Coyne + Associates team thoroughly enjoys the challenges of meeting time and budget constraints on difficult projects while turning out great results.
The CICS Chicago Quest school project included a complete gut of interior work as well as new facades, roofing system and mechanical systems. The newly designed high school facility includes innovations labs, science labs, classrooms and administration spaces. The new facades incorporate the use of pre-finished modular cement panels, allowing the tight schedule to come together quickly.
Take a look at the time lapse video of the facade during construction here or Start your own design here.
Design Build Teaming for Schools
Let’s work together!
The Public Building Commission of Chicago is conducting an outreach in support of an upcoming design-build procurement for Chicago Public Schools summer critical projects.
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Contributing to the Community
Jamieson Elementary School was hoping for a new playground, among other necessary facility improvements. Coyne + Associates Architects was hired to design the school facility upgrades as well as the exterior site improvements, including a new playground.
Chicago Public Schools planned to utilize a playground construction program known as Groundbreakers that is comprised of CPS high school students that are gaining experience in “hands-on” construction, as well as allow the district to provide more playground construction throughout the city of Chicago than otherwise possible through traditional construction means.
With very tight summer construction schedules, the Groundbreakers were challenged to meet the required schedule of the overall construction project. Additional site work, including playground surfacing, landscaping, new asphalt, fencing, parking striping, and other work would still need to be completed after the playground and still prior to the opening day of school.
Giving Back to the Community
To support the overall project as well as giving back to the community, Coyne + Associates Architects offered to contribute towards the playground construction effort. Patrick Coyne, the principal, along with other Coyne + Associates employees, including project manager Stephanie Lockemann, performed construction duties such as digging, shoveling, bolting, holding, and placing concrete. Jennifer Mejia, the construction manager, lead the team of volunteers and professionals to work together placing and erecting the life-size toy set. Even Cory Davis, the Director of Capital Renovation and New Construction for Chicago Public Schools, pitched in to assemble the playground.
Patrick Coyne also recruited his son, James and his friend Dakotah (also CPS students) to pitch in with the efforts, allowing them to get “hands-on” experience while giving back to the community.
Reward of Volunteering
The work was a bit of a challenge; sweating in the heat of the summer, solving the “puzzle” of the playground system “kit-of parts”, and just getting done whatever needed to be done, even if you’ve never done it before. Even though we enjoyed a decent lunch break, by the end of the day most of us were exhausted.
There was such a great rewarding feeling on the opening day of the playground to watch the students, and general children in the community, LOVING the playground! The loud screams of joy and laughter were such a great reward to all of us that pitched in to make that possible!
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