Burnham Pointe Sold

Crescent Heights bought Burnham Pointe, a 298-unit tower in Printers Row at 730 S Clark for $126M. It’s a tidy profit for seller Monogram Residential Trust, which paid $88M for the building five years ago, Curbed Chicago reports. Read More...

New Company Headshots

This week we had our corporate head-shots taken by joshpabstphoto in Chicago. The process took several hours. The photographer used a ten foot roll of paper to create the infinity backdrop required for the all white look. Several of the...

Xi’an Software City Complex

smdp Selected to Design Xi'an Software City Complex smdp was recently selected as the winner of a design competition for for a large office and SOHO development in Xi'an, China. smdp designed the Hangwei Hi-Tech Software New City Project to promote the...

Bocom moves into Suzhou Headquarters

The Bank of Communications of China (BOCOM) has moved into its smdp-designed Suzhou headquarters. The 73,000 square meter development, which includes a 22-story tower, is located in the dynamic Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) and was designed to reflect cultural and...

SMDP, LLC and Samoo scheme on site

World Architecture News | 250m-high Samsung headquarters in Beijing reflects evolution of Technology Company Read full article here. Construction of the new 56-storey SMDP, LLC-designed Samsung headquarters broke ground on 27 February in Beijing. The 2 million sq ft project will be one of...

Samsung Beijing Project Construction

Samsung recently announced that construction has begun on its 56-story Chinese headquarters, located in Beijing and designed by smdp. The 186,000 square meter, 750 billion won (US$703.4 million) structure, located in the newly master planned Central Business District, will be...

725 West Randolph

West Loop Newcomer Would Rise 31 Stories, Feature Robotic Parking smdp's west loop tower at 725 West Randolph was picked up by Chicago Curbed. Read what they had to say. Read the whole article at Chicago Curbed. Robotic parking, eh? We'll do you...

The Chicago Architecture Blog

Features smdp studio Read the full article here.  We met with them in their offices high in the NBC Tower in Streeterville.  While most architecture offices look like plain old offices from any industry, SMDP’s digs look like what the average person...

Chicago Real Estate Daily

Teamed with FiField smdp Eyes Taller Building in West Loop Read the full article here. “This is a city of skyscrapers,” Mr. Fifield said. “We're saying, 'Look, we've got a large site with up to 1.4 million square feet of zoning on...

Kennedy Cap | Chicago

West Loop Masterplan smdp has been actively involved in the west loop masterplan proposal to cover the Kennedy in a park; not unlike Millennium Park in the East Loop. Project in the news on several sources. Chicago Sun Times on Kennedy Cap Kennedy Cap...