The area south of Wrigley Field on Chicago’s North Side is rapidly developing in commercial venues capitalizing on and looking beyond the area’s economic relationship to the Chicago Cubs.

This owner seeks to combine two three-story buildings into an eighteen-room hotel by adding one floor and a roof deck. Avatar, working with a split-face and smooth limestone pattern extant on the north building, developed a rich classical palette including engaged pilasters in superimposed order and compound arches with fan windows for the third-floor entablature.

An existing suspended bay will be converted to a walk-out balcony for one tier of guestrooms. All rooms will feature french doors and planters in the best traditions of European boutique hotels.

A full-floor roof deck with green roof plantings and an outdoor entertainment area is planned for the hotel’s guests. The street level and lower level will feature the hotel’s lobby and conference areas as well as a dessert café and bar. Unifying the two façades will be a continous canopy, here shown in lacquered copper.

Construction is scheduled for 2008.