The Best Projects and award of merit honorees were chosen from 64 submittals.

The Lincoln Park Zoo’s Pepper Wildlife Center lets visitors and lions get a little closer while also preserving the historic character of a Chicago landmark.

Replacing a 1950s-era school, the new John Hancock College Preparatory High School forms a community hub within Chicago’s Clearing neighborhood.

Hunzinger Construction’s performance on the American Family Insurance Amphitheater project literally raised the roof.

Faced with the constraints of an extremely narrow site, the Electric Park Garden Bar addition team found ways to leverage prefabrication to reduce downtime for subcontractors and keep the project on track.

The construction team on the $80-million Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort Guest Room Renovation bet that its employees and partners would improve as the project progressed—and they came up big.

To transform a WWII-era hangar into a high-tech modern facility for the U.S. Air Force, the team designed and constructed a building within a building.

The $50-million Carson Group headquarters features a six-story office structure joined to a four-story tower by an amenity hub. Both buildings use electrochromic envelopes to reduce energy loads and emissions.

To turn an underutilized block next to Chicago’s busiest commuter hub into a landmark 52-story building, the design and construction team had to dig deep for creative solutions.