Antunovich Associates

Antunovich Associates is an architecture, planning, and interior design firm founded in 1990, with offices in Chicago and Washington, D.C. Its work spans multifamily housing, mixed-use, hospitality, and institutional projects. The firm designed 370 N. Morgan Street, a 32-story rental tower in Chicago’s Fulton Market that recently topped out. Antunovich has shaped a large share of the residential and mixed-use development in Chicago’s fast-changing West Loop and River North, drawing on a design vocabulary that leans clean and contextual rather than flashy.

Five offices, not two. Beyond Chicago at 224 West Huron Street and Washington, D.C. at 1144 3rd Street NE, Antunovich Associates lists locations in Los Angeles (9724 Washington Boulevard, Culver City), Austin, and Buffalo at 1 West Seneca Street. The firm supports projects nationwide with a staff it describes as in excess of 100 design professionals.

Three disciplines sit under one roof: architecture, planning, and interior design. The interiors practice extends past space planning into FF&E procurement for commercial, workplace, hotel, senior living and residential projects, which means a client can run furniture specification and purchasing through the same firm that drew the building. Planning work includes master planning for large mixed-use commercial developments as well as institutional and university campuses.

The stated expertise list is broad: mixed-use developments; multi-family, senior living and student housing; speculative office buildings and office interiors; higher education facilities and community centers; hotels, restaurants and public gathering spaces; commercial retail stores; and historic preservation and adaptive re-use of historic buildings. That last category matters in a Chicago and Buffalo context, where a large share of viable sites carry existing structures.

On sustainability, the firm points to the AIA 2030 Commitment, which prioritizes energy performance and carbon reductions with the goal of carbon-neutral buildings, developments and major renovations by 2030. Antunovich Associates states it supports that commitment and has published a 2023 Sustainability Action Plan as a downloadable document. The site also carries the U.S. Green Building Council and Architects Advocate Action on Climate Change marks.

The firm frames its work as collaborative between client, builder, architect and community, and notes repeat clients along with working relationships with established general contractors and subcontractors – a practical signal for owners deciding whether to run design-bid-build or bring the architect in earlier alongside a contractor.

Hiring runs through a single channel: resumes and portfolios go to work@antunovich.com, submissions are reviewed and kept on file, and the firm contacts candidates directly when a position opens. Joseph M. Antunovich, FAIA, founded the practice and remains the name on the door. The Chicago office can be reached at 312.266.1126, Washington at 202.540.1144, Los Angeles at 310.237.0600 and Buffalo at 716.427.0733.