Wood House

Wood House — Brininstool + Lynch — Chicago, IL — 2014

Wicker Park's transformation from a neighborhood of modest brick worker's cottages to double- and triple-lot urban mansions is one of Chicago's more legible gentrification stories, and Wood House is a precise document of that shift. The materials neither apologize for the scale nor ignore what they replaced: brick that echoes the worker's cottages, copper screen that signals mansion.