Hospitality · Liberty Township, OH
CinéBistro at the Liberty Center
Ten floor-to-ceiling south-facing windows, each 9' × 30', delivering unacceptable glare into a restaurant and bar — with opening night six days away.
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Civic · Bolingbrook, IL
Joseph and Sarah Levy Senior Center
Fifteen windows in a senior centre's Visitor's Center, where existing vertical blinds were failing and could not be operated by the elderly clients they served.
Corporate · Chicago, IL
HBK Engineering
A South Loop engineering office combining private offices with an open plan and high daylight levels, needing glare and heat control without losing the view.
Higher Education · Evanston, IL
Northwestern University — Foster-Walker Complex
Over 750 manual roller shades replacing dated mini blinds across four wings and common areas of Northwestern's largest residence hall.
Corporate · Oak Brook, IL
Inland Real Estate
South-facing windows on two floors of a national headquarters transmitting glare severe enough to make monitor work uncomfortable throughout the day.
Corporate · Downers Grove, IL
ARCO/Murray HQ
A new headquarters exposed from all directions with no solar blockage from surrounding buildings — needing glare control, privacy, and the view preserved.
Multifamily · Chicago, IL
Gill Park Cooperative
1,768 shades across a 27-storey affordable housing cooperative — blackout in every bedroom, solar filtering in every living room, built to survive years of tenant use.
Multifamily · Chicago, IL
Webster Square Apartments
512 shades across a Lincoln Park redevelopment, with openness specified room by room — 1% for bedroom privacy, 10% to preserve the Oz Park and skyline views.
Multifamily · Chicago, IL
Broadway Green Residences
223 custom shades for an Edgewater loft conversion with heavy eastern and western exposure, specified at two openness levels — 1% in bedrooms, 3% in living rooms.
K–12 Education · Lake Bluff, IL
Lake Bluff Elementary School
211 shades solving two problems at once — spring-operated blackout shades as a classroom security tool, and clutch-operated solar shades preserving the rural views.
K–12 Education · Chicago, IL
Baker College Prep
122 shades replacing fragile PVC vertical blinds and mini blinds that kept breaking during class time at a Noble Network charter campus.
K–12 Education · Chicago, IL
Gary Comer College Prep
24 motorized blackout shades integrated with a school's data network, so staff can trigger classroom privacy from any connected device.
K–12 Education · Schiller Park, IL
Kennedy Elementary School
An addition and renovation project needing glare and heat control without giving up daylighting or the students' connection to the outdoors.
Worship
Muhammad University
Nine motorized blackout shades, each 6' × 22', controlling both solar glare and privacy in an auditorium used for assemblies and sacred ceremonies.
Worship · Naperville, IL
Community Christian Church — Yellow Box
Six motorized blackout shades for irregular east-facing windows up to 106" × 190" in a new 1,100-seat auditorium, operable in unison from the AV desk.
Aviation · Gary, IN
B. Coleman Aviation
A private-aviation FBO in the middle of an airfield, where dual shades manage both FAA-mandated crew rest and executive conference-room presentations.
Corporate · Chicago, IL
Regus South Loop Business Center
27 shades finishing a newly renovated flexible-workspace centre, balancing UV protection for tenant furniture against the Roosevelt Collection view.
Civic · Chicago, IL
Better Boys Foundation
62 shades for a North Lawndale youth services facility where window-lined corridors were trapping heat and driving up cooling costs.
Corporate · Chicago, IL
Fettes, Love & Sieben
25 shades using KOOLBLACK® technology to give a contractor's office dark-fabric glare control without the heat gain dark fabrics normally bring.
Corporate · Chicago, IL
Walsh Construction HQ
Motorized shades for a West Loop headquarters with 19-foot lobby windows and a gymnasium — including custom fascia painted to match the corporate green.
Corporate · Chicago, IL
The Terry Group
A 28th-floor southeast exposure at One Prudential Plaza with little protection from intense solar energy through the daytime hours.
Private Residence · Chicago, IL
Wicker Park Residence
21 shade systems across a three-storey Wicker Park home — dual, coupled, single-band and clutch systems, some as large as 60" × 160", app-controlled.
Private Residence · Chicago, IL
West Loop Residence — Dual Shade System
15 dual shade systems protecting new wood flooring, historical artwork and a grand piano on a 10th-floor West Loop unit with southern and western exposure.
Civic · Chicago, IL
Obama Center
Corporate · New York, NY
Uber — NYC Headquarters, World Trade Center
Corporate · New York, NY
Deutsche Bank Center — 10 Columbus Circle
Corporate · Stamford, CT
Charter Communications HQ
Corporate · Long Island City, NY
Macy's — Long Island City Headquarters
Corporate
AmericanEagle.com Headquarters
Cultural · Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Building
Research
Fermilab IERC
Research · Evanston, IL
Evanston Labs
Higher Education · Chicago, IL
Loyola University — Damen Student Center
Corporate
Gorton's Seafood
Early Childhood · Chicago, IL
Lincoln Park Prep Preschool
Early Childhood
Discovery Place Preschool
Corporate
ARCO Murray
Corporate · Chicago, IL
360 N. Green
Multifamily · New York, NY
30 Hudson Yards
Multifamily · New York, NY
50 Hudson Yards
Multifamily · New York, NY
55 Hudson Yards
Multifamily · New York, NY
180 Riverside Blvd
Multifamily · New York, NY
Lyra
Multifamily · San Francisco, CA
950 Gough
Multifamily · Oakland, CA
24th & Waverly
Multifamily · Dallas, TX
2400 W Byron St
Higher Education · Roswell, NM
New Mexico Military Institute — 8 Dormitories
Multifamily · Chicago, IL
1926 W Harrison
Multifamily · Chicago, IL
1201 N Clark
Multifamily · Chicago, IL
446 E Ontario
Multifamily · Chicago, IL
871 N Franklin
Multifamily · Chicago, IL
868 N Wells
Multifamily · Chicago, IL
920 N Wells
Multifamily · Chicago, IL
210 N Aberdeen
Multifamily · Chicago, IL