We collaborate with people, organizations and communities to design a better future for the world
Hammersley Architecture is an Architecture & Urban Planning Firm located in the historic Fine Arts Building in the city of Chicago. Our work is beautiful, functional, social, relatable, innovative, green… and fiercely optimistic about the human condition
SELECTED PROJECTS
FRESH MOVES 2.0
A bus painted in vivid color moves through neighborhoods where fresh food has never reliably arrived. Its presence alone is an act of optimism — and everything inside it is an act of design.
Fresh Moves 2.0 is the conversion of a decommissioned bookmobile, donated by the City of Chicago to Growing Power — now Urban Growers Collective — an urban agriculture organization rooted in the city's South Side
SUGAR BEET FOOD CO-OP
A food co-op is not a grocery store. It is a community deciding, together, what it wants to eat, how it wants to live, and who it wants to be — and it deserves a space that makes that ambition visible.
The Sugar Beet grew from a glass of wine and a booth at a local farmers market, brought to life over three years through the collective effort of farmers, designers, architects, local government, and neighbors.
EUROPA HQ
The business of sight deserves a building that understands it. Europa's new corporate headquarters is designed around a single organizing truth: vision and natural light create perception — and both can be shaped and made richer through deliberate form.
Europa's headquarters makes the argument that a workplace built around light and vision doesn't just support creative work — it affects the very way it is perceived.
URBAN CABIN
The journey out of the city, through the dunes, and into the trees. Urban Cabin is designed to make that arrival feel like something: a genuine crossing from one world into another, with a mere 60 miles separating the two.
The Urban Cabin is a return in simple terms that allows the surrounding natural environment to take center stage.
