User:NathanEzra/John Lahey (SCB Architecture)

John Lahey is Chairman of Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB), where he oversees firm-wide management for the company’s offices in Chicago and San Francisco. Under his leadership, SCB has secured top rankings in almost every market sector of architecture and design. He also serves as Principal-in-Charge of Design on many of the firm’s residential, office, institutional, hospitality and planning projects.

Lahey and SCB are recipients of:
 * The Leaf Award for Best Use of Technology


 * The CBC Merit Award and IBS Award for Loyola University's Richard J. Klarchek Information Commons


 * The AIA Chicago Distinguished Building Award for Crate & Barrel's flagship store on Michigan Avenue


 * The AIA Chicago Distinguished Building Award for Tetra Pak

Lahey earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University. He is affiliated with the Chicago Building Congress, the Economic Club of Chicago, the Urban Land Institute, the Arts Club of Chicago, the American Institute of Architects, Campus Design Review Board - | University of Illinois at Chicago, the Board of Trustees - St. Ignatius College Preparatory School, | Loyola University - Council of Regents, Chicago Jesuit Academy Board of Trustees, among other organizations.

Notable Projects
Lahey has worked on over 80 mixed-use, corporate office, residential, education, hospitality and retail projects during his career.

He completed the multi-family residential Legacy Tower in 2009. Rising 72 stories above Michigan Avenue, the building also holds space for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

215 W. Washington, another mixed-use project that Lahey directed, soars 50 stories into the Chicago skyline. The project is one of the first LEED certified residential high rises built in the city’s historic downtown core.

With the completion of Easter Seals of Metropolitan Chicago Theraputic School & Center for Autism Research in the summer of 2008, Lahey set a new standard for innovation in education design. The 87,000 square foot facility helps empower autistic students to achieve peak academic performance as well as to increase social and vocational skills for independence in their communities.

Currently, Lahey is directing the recently approved Addison Park on Clark mixed-use design project. The project is transit-oriented and an environmentally sensitive building that includes a green roof. Built along Addison and Clark Streets, the project will benefit the community by revitalizing an important part of the Lakeview neighborhood, creating jobs and increasing tax revenue, providing additional hotel capacity, increasing landscaping and open space and widening sidewalks along Clark, leverage existing access to transit and providing amenities for neighborhood residents.