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At Home in the Modern World

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When it comes to material originality, this former tavern in Chicago’s trendy Bucktown neighborhood pulls out all the stops. Case in point? Colorful pieces of broken LPs are visible in the glass aggregate flooring of the upstairs master bathroom—-which the architects made from the pulverized remains of old vinyl records.

Geoff Manaugh
The structure boasts a roof garden replete with turbines and solar panels, as well as fifteen geothermal wells sunk underground.

Photo by: Doug Fogelson/DRFP

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