UrbanLab

UrbanLab's projects range in scale from houses such as the Hennepin, Illinois, Residence,{{cite web |url=http://www.dwell.com/houses-we-love/slideshow/new-grass-roots |date=November 2009 |work=Dwell |title=New Grass Roots |author=Ryan Blitstein |accessdate=25 April 2014}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.urbanlab.com/live/hennepin.html |title=Hennepin House |publisher=UrbanLab |accessdate=25 April 2014}} mixed-use residential and commercial buildings such as Upton’s Naturals Headquarters,{{cite web |url=https://www.dwell.com/article/in-just-48-hours-a-chicago-livework-space-is-built-from-the-ground-up-using-concrete-panels-3be00429 |date=June 2015 |work=Dwell |title=In just 48 hours |author=Luke Hopping |accessdate=18 September 2016}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.urbanlab.com/work/uptons.html |title=Upton's Naturals |publisher=UrbanLab |accessdate=25 April 2014}} public open spaces such as the Smart Museum of Art Courtyard {{cite web |url=http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/sculpture-garden/ |work=University of Chicago |title=Sculpture Garden and Reception Hall |accessdate=25 April 2014}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.urbanlab.com/culture/smartmuseum.html |title=Courtyard at the Smart Museum |publisher=UrbanLab |accessdate=25 April 2014}} at the University of Chicago, and large scale, urban design projects such as Growing Water in Chicago{{cite web |url=http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/080929future.asp |date=29 September 2008 |work=Architectural Record |title=Momentum Grows for Futuristic Scheme |author=David Sokol |accessdate=25 April 2014}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.urbanlab.com/urban/growingwater.html |title=Growing Water |publisher=UrbanLab |accessdate=25 April 2014}} and a masterplan (13 square kilometers / 5 square miles) for the Yangming Lake region of Changde, China. UrbanLab was awarded the 2009 Latrobe Prize{{cite web |url=http://www.bdcnetwork.com/aia-college-fellows-announces-winner-2009-latrobe-prize |date=August 11, 2010 |work=Building Design+Construction |title=AIA College of Fellows announces winner of 2009 Latrobe Prize |author=Matt Tinder |accessdate=25 April 2014}} by the American Institute of Architects, College of Fellows.

UrbanLab won a competition for the History Channel's City of the Future: A Design and Engineering Challenge.[http://www.history.com/designchallenge/sweepstakes/ Engineering an Empire: A Design and Engineering Challenge] The competition asked architects in three cities, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, to develop a conceptual plan for their city 100 years from now. The teams competed and a finalist for each city was named. In the final round of the competition, with the acclaimed architect Daniel Libeskind as master of ceremonies, UrbanLab was announced the national winner after a month-long online vote.

UrbanLab's project, Growing Water,{{cite web |url=https://urbanlab.com/growing-water |title=Growing Water presentation}} starts with the assumption that in 100 years that "water will be the new oil" and envisions a Chicago that recycles 100 % of its waste water back into Lake Michigan. The project is inspired by Chicago's rich history including its boulevard system, the reversal of the Chicago River and the Deep Tunnel project. The plan calls for new boulevards to be created that would channel waste water from buildings into greenhouse and wetland systems that would clean the water and send it back the lake while creating a new network of social and recreational spaces, new parks, and corridors. These new corridors would be termed "eco-boulevards" and be spaced about every half-mile in the city.{{cite web |author=Henderson, Harold |url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/ourtown/070511/urbanlab/ |title=Close Deep Tunnel |publisher=Chicago Reader |date=11 May 2007}}

UrbanLab: Bowling is a new book about UrbanLab’s work written by Felsen and Dunn, published by Applied Research + Design. The book explores relationships and realities between cities, architecture and water. As populations steadily increase in cities, the world’s natural resources are consumed at ever-faster rates. The majority of the world’s populations live in countries where clean water supplies are dwindling, and these water shortages are also quickly translating into food shortages. What can designers do to avert looming water-related realities? UrbanLab: Bowling views potential water crises as opportunities to speculate on future urban design possibilities, especially in cities. Several projects are presented that take an ecological approach to re-thinking received urban design methodologies of addressing the design of water-related infrastructures in existing and new cities.

• 1995 Lloyd Warren Fellowship: 82nd Paris Prize, Van Alen Institute
• 2003 Emerging Visions Competition Prize, Chicago Architecture Club
• 2007 National Grand Prize, The City of the Future: A Design and Engineering Challenge,{{cite web |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907EED6113FF93AA35751C0A9619C8B63 |date=9 February 2007 |work=New York Times |title=Chicago Firm Urban Design Winner |author=Robin Pogrebin |author-link=Robin Pogrebin| accessdate=25 April 2014}} The History Channel
• 2007 AIA Divine Detail Award{{cite web |url=http://www.aiachicago.org/special_features/2007DEA/awards.asp?subID=714 |date=2007 |title=AIA Awards |accessdate=25 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130614063250/http://www.aiachicago.org/special_features/2007DEA/awards.asp?subID=714 |archivedate=14 June 2013 |url-status=dead}} — Hannah’s Bretzel
• 2007 Dubin Family Young Architect Award,{{cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2007/12/12/pitt-making-celebrity-work-for-homes-in-new-orleans/ |date=12 December 2007 |work=Chicago Tribune |title=Pitt making celebrity work for homes |author=Blair Kamin |access-date=25 April 2014}} AIA Chicago
• 2008 Excellence in Education Award, American Institute of Architecture Students
• 2008 AIA Unbuilt Design Award,{{cite web |url=http://www.aiachicago.org/special_features/2008dea/awards.asp?subID=1179 |date=2008 |title=AIA Awards |accessdate=25 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517132537/http://www.aiachicago.org/special_features/2008dea/awards.asp?subID=1179 |archivedate=17 May 2014 |url-status=dead}} Growing Water, Chicago
• 2009 Global Visionary{{cite web |url=http://www.evl.uic.edu/files/events/ChicagoGlobalVisionaries.pdf |date=2 March 2009 |title=Global Visionaries WBEZ Press Release |accessdate=25 April 2014 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100730080752/http://www.evl.uic.edu/files/events/ChicagoGlobalVisionaries.pdf |archivedate=30 July 2010 |url-status=dead}} by WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio
• 2009 Latrobe Prize,{{cite web |url=http://www.bdcnetwork.com/aia-college-fellows-announces-winner-2009-latrobe-prize |date=August 11, 2010 |work=Building Design+Construction |title=AIA College of Fellows announces winner of 2009 Latrobe Prize |author=Matt Tinder |accessdate=25 April 2014}} from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) College of Fellows.
• 2009 AIA Urban Design Award{{cite web |url=http://www.aiachicago.org/special_features/2009dea/awards.asp?catID=6 |date=2009 |title=AIA Awards |accessdate=25 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221022200/http://www.aiachicago.org/special_features/2009DEA/awards.asp?catID=6 |archivedate=21 February 2014 |url-status=dead}} — Growing Water, Chicago
• 2009 AIA Distinguished Building Award{{cite web |url=http://www.aiachicago.org/special_features/2009dea/awards.asp?catID=1 |date=2009 |title=AIA Awards |accessdate=25 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203104659/http://www.aiachicago.org/special_features/2009DEA/awards.asp?catID=1 |archivedate=3 February 2014 |url-status=dead}} — Hennepin House, Hennepin, Illinois
• 2010 Venice Biennale of Architecture,{{cite web |url=http://www.workshopping.us/?p=23 |title=Workshopping at the 2010 Venice Biennale |accessdate=25 April 2014}} Archeworks at the 12th International Exhibition
• 2010 Emerging Voices,{{cite web |url=http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=4332 |date=2010-03-03 |work=The Architect's Newspaper |title=UrbanLab |author-link=Julie V. Iovine |last=Iovine |first=Julie V. |accessdate=25 April 2014}} Architectural League of New York — lecture delivered at the New Museum
• 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, Honorable Mention{{cite web |url=http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/the_2010_buckminster_fuller_challenge_finalists/ |date=29 April 2010 |work=Bustler.net |title=2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Finalists |accessdate=25 April 2014}}
• 2010 AIA Interior Architecture Honor Award{{cite web |url=http://www.aiachicago.org/special_features/2010DEA/awards.asp?catID=2 |date=2010 |title=AIA Awards |accessdate=25 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509041813/http://www.aiachicago.org/special_features/2010DEA/awards.asp?catID=2 |archivedate=9 May 2013 |url-status=dead}} — Hennepin House, Hennepin, Illinois
• 2011 AIA Regional & Urban Design Honor Award {{cite web |url=http://www.aiachicago.org/special_features/2011dea/awards.asp?appId=185 |date=2011 |title=AIA Awards |accessdate=25 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130424190930/http://www.aiachicago.org/special_features/2011DEA/awards.asp?appId=185 |archivedate=24 April 2013 |url-status=dead}} — Vertical Farming the Union Stock Yards
• 2012 AIA Small Project Award — Video Arcade, Merchandise Mart
• 2012 Venice Biennale of Architecture,{{cite web |url=http://archrecord.construction.com/news/2012/06/120619-Preview-Americans-in-Venice.asp |date=19 June 2012 |work=Architectural Record |title=Preview: Americans in Venice |author=Jayne Merkel |accessdate=25 April 2014}} the 13th International Exhibition
• 2013 AIA Sustainability Leadership Special Recognition Award{{cite web |url=http://www.aiachicago.org/special_features/2013dea/awards.asp?appId=1005 |date=2013 |title=AIA Awards |accessdate=25 April 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140515103938/http://www.aiachicago.org/special_features/2013dea/awards.asp?appId=1005 |archivedate=15 May 2014 |url-status=dead}} — MoMA PS1
• 2014 Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Publication Grant
• 2014 AIA Unbuilt Design Award, Special Recognition{{cite web |url=http://www.aiachicago.org/dea/2014/virtual-water |date=2014 |title=AIA Awards |accessdate=5 November 2014}} — MoMA PS1
• 2014 AIA Distinguished Building Honor Award{{cite web |url=http://www.aiachicago.org/dea/2014/morgan-street-live-work |date=2014 |title=AIA Awards |accessdate=5 November 2014}} — Morgan Street Live/Work
• 2014/15 MCHAP: Mies Crown Hall Architecture Prize, Nominated Work{{cite web |url=http://www.arch.iit.edu/prize/mchap/selected-works/2016/all/nominated |date=2015 |title=MCHAP Awards |accessdate=18 September 2016}} — Mohawk Residence
• 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial,{{cite web |url=http://archpaper.com/2015/10/bold-new-visions-for-the-future-city/#more-109399 |date=October 2015 |work=The Architect's Newspaper |title=Bold New Visions |author=Matt Shaw |accessdate=18 September 2016}} The State of the Art of Architecture
• 2016 AIA Regional & Urban Design Honor Award{{cite web |url=http://www.aiachicago.org/dea_archive/2016 |date=2014 |title=AIA Awards |accessdate=18 September 2016}} — Masterplan for Changde, China

{{Reflist}}

• [http://www.urbanlab.com UrbanLab] UrbanLab’s official website
• [https://urbanlab.com/growing-water Growing Water] UrbanLab's Growing Water project

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