Architecture Services in Chicago

Complete Architecture Services

When you need help with the interior design or facility planning of your new project, Vasilko Architects is the perfect choice to get the job done right!

Our company provides a full range of services for projects involving architecture, interior design, facility planning, and master planning. Each project is unique. Our firm is proficient in designing new buildings, renovating existing buildings, and restoring historic buildings. 

Types of Architecture Projects We Handle

Our areas of expertise include universities, colleges, schools, and commercial and residential buildings. A wide variety of functions and special uses are wrapped within each of these broad descriptions including but not limited to the following project types:

• Library buildings and library spaces of various types and sizes
  
• Information commons, learning commons, and tutoring spaces
  
• Student union and student center facilities
  
• Student residence halls, student apartment facilities, park-like cabins / bunkhouses
  
• Convocations centers
  
• Athletic NCAA facilities / recreations facilities–all events indoor / outdoor
  
• Fitness centers with cardiovascular and weight training, aerobics, spinning, yoga, massage therapy, locker / shower facilities
  
• Athletic training, taping, and rehabilitation facilities
  
• Swimming pools and Jacuzzi
  
• Wellness centers
  
• Saunas / steam rooms
  
• Student organization facilities
  
• Food service facilities and dining venues
  
• Visual arts studios and classrooms
  
• Art galleries
  
• Black box theater design; new building and renovation
  
• Meetings and conventions rooms of all configurations
  
• Science laboratories, offices, and classrooms
  
• Public branch library facilities
  
• Media center, computer facilities, studios, and other high-technology facilities
  
• Retail facilities, bookstores, branch banks
  
• Multifamily residential developments
  
• Corporate office buildings and related facilities
  
• Hotel and hospitality building types
  
• Restoration of historic buildings–exterior facades and interior finishes
  
• Conversion of historic properties into new use developments
  
• Religious monuments, chapels, and related support spaces
  
• Art programs, exterior building murals, sculpture placement, and orientation
  
• Identity programs, creating branding logos, signs, banners, wayfinding
  
• Parking structures and parking lots
  
• Americans with Disabilities Act new construction, renovation, and historic buildings
  
• Water features

Different Architecture Services We Offer:

• Master planning and building space planning
• Site analysis, site selection, and coordination of land survey and geotechnical services by others
• Existing facilities surveys (excluding hazardous materials surveys)
• Due diligence site and building studies, and documentation
• Site planning
• Programming for building design and renovation projects
• Master planning programming
• Design services (traditional A/E work phases)
• Schematic design documents
• Schematics drawings for test fit of program
• Adjacency flow diagrams
• Renderings
• Outline specifications
• Order of magnitude construction cost estimates
• Design development documents
• Detailed drawings
• Short form specifications
  
• Interior design services
  
• Furniture selection and custom furniture design
• Fixtures selection
• Equipment selection
• FF&E drawings and specifications
• Furniture cost estimates
• Construction documents
• Bid drawings and specifications
• Issue for construction drawings
• Full long form CSI specifications
• Permit documents
• Permit drawings
• Permit processing via expeditor services
• Self-certification permit process expertise
• Construction administration
• Bid document preparation and bid analysis
• Negotiated bid review and analysis
• Construction observation and shop drawing review
• Contract administration services
• Evaluations of the contractor’s work
• Certification of payments to contractor
• Photography documenting construction
• Changes in the work
• Evaluation of budget versus cost of the work
• Project completion
• Punch list preparation
• Review of closeout documents
• As-built drawing preparation
  

We Are Involved in Specialty Services

• Presentation and fund-raising services
• Artist's renderings
• Computer generated renderings
• Computer animations
• Scale models
• Photography upon project completion
• Preparation of fund-raising documents
• Printing services related to fund-raising documents
• Award application preparation and submittals
• Furniture inventory for projects where existing furniture is planned to be repurposed
• Preparation of existing building drawings in the event existing building owner does not have record drawings