Photography Awards
Architecture MasterPrize, 2024. Winner in Architectural Photography for 1000M, Western Michigan University Student Center, The National, Commercial Lobby Lounge as well as The Studio.
Architecture MasterPrize, 2024. Honorable Mention for 150 North Riverside as well as 38 South Michigan Avenue.
Project Awards
AIA Chicago People’s Choice Award, Healthcare, 2026, as well as Association of Licensed Architects Silver Award, 2025: Thresholds Center for Mental Wellbeing South
Multi-Housing News Excellence Awards, 2025 Gold: Encuentro Square
Interior Design Best of Year, 2024 finalist, as well as Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Awards, 2024 honorable mention: Western Michigan University Student Center
AIA Indianapolis Design Excellence Awards, 2024 Citation Award, New Construction Over $5M: Matheu Architects’ Monroe County Public Library Southwest Branch
THE PLAN Award shortlist: CJ Blossom Park, 2018, as well as Mariposa House, 2022
Best of BEGA, 2022, as well as Residential Design Awards, 2021: Mariposa House
AIA Chicago Design Excellence Awards: Wood House, Claremont House, Racine Art Museum, BARDAVID, Blue Office as well as Barrett Studio
AIA Illinois Design Awards, Greatest Impact, Construction Value Below $5M: Nurture’s South Shore Beach House
Masonry Advisory Council Excellence in Masonry Awards, Structural Masonry Winner: Nurture’s South Shore Beach House
Interior Design Best of Year honorees: CHUM as well as UC San Diego Jacobs Medical Center, 2017, and Mariposa House by Brininstool + Lynch as well as a confidential client for AECOM, 2021
North American Copper in Architecture Awards, 2016: Wood House
Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Awards: Wood House as well as Racine Art Museum
Residential Architect Design Awards: Wood House as well as Claremont House
Published Work
Healthcare Design, 2026: Northwestern Medicine Faculty Office Center, Healthcare Design Showcase Award of Merit
Interior Design: Northwestern Medicine Faculty Office Center, Johns Hopkins University physics laboratory, Walgreens at the Old Post Office, Forward Space showroom, Arts Club of Chicago Drawing Room, 2023 Healthcare Giants, 8 Design-Minded Offices, SOM at 80, Claremont House, Basecamp, Racine Art Museum as well as Wood House
Fast Company: Northwestern Medicine Faculty Office Center, Innovation by Design winner, 2025, as well as Basecamp, 2010
Hospitality Design, 2022, as well as CBS America ByDesign, 2025: BARDAVID
Archinect: Western Michigan University Student Center, Mariposa House as well as Wood House
World Architecture: Western Michigan University Student Center
ArchDaily: CJ Blossom Park, Western Michigan University Student Center, Brininstool + Lynch’s Wood House, Basecamp as well as Coffou Cottage, along with many more projects photographed
Architectural Record: Wood House by Brininstool + Lynch, Top 300 U.S. Architecture Firms of 2023, BP Chicago, St. Mary’s Hospital, The Century Project as well as Northwest Community Hospital South Pavilion
Urbanize Chicago, 2023: The Lydian
Chicago Magazine, Crain’s Chicago Business as well as Modern Luxury Interiors: Meyer Residence
Aspire Design and Home, 2022: Mariposa House
Architectural Digest, 2021: Mariposa House by Brininstool + Lynch, two features
Metropolis: Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine, Designing with Empathy, SOM Chicago and UI Labs, A Good Crisis as well as Factory Architecture in the Age of Industry 4.0
Architect: CJ Blossom Park, Workspace: Brininstool + Lynch, More Cupcakes as well as GRAM Green
Florida Design: Podesta Residence
Luxe, Residential Architect as well as Modulør: Wood House
The Architect’s Newspaper as well as gb&d: Blue Office
dwell, 2014: Claremont House by Brininstool + Lynch
Wallpaper, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Residential Architect as well as Chicago Architect: Claremont House
Chicago Architect, 2009: Tiny Lounge
The New York Times, Architecture, Art in America as well as Condé Nast Traveler: Racine Art Museum by Brininstool + Lynch
Office Snapshots, 36 workplace projects: Northwestern Medicine Faculty Office Center, ZS Associates, mHUB Innovation Center, Applied Systems, Syntellis Performance Solutions, Bread Financial, Levin and Perconti, Kroll, Elite Staffing, Numerator, Fredrikson & Byron, T. Marzetti, Forward Space, Boston Consulting Group, ITR Concession Co., Farmer’s Fridge, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Chicago Public Media, ShopperTrak, Brunswick, The Advisory Board Company, Zurich North America, CA Ventures, CJ Blossom Park, Echo Global Logistics, Axis, Lockton, DCI Artform, Zebra Technologies, Flexera, Central Coast, University HealthSystem Consortium, CannonDesign, Follett, Comcast Spotlight as well as Plante Moran. See them all
Interviews and Features
Architectural Photography Almanac, October 2024: Creative Uses for a Dremel Tool
Architectural Photography Almanac, August 2024: Abstract Opportunities at USC Jacobs Medical Center
Architectural Photography Almanac, April 2024: “Everything Always Works Out,” on the Western Michigan University Student Center
A Photo Editor, December 2019: “The Best Work I Saw at the Filter Photo Festival,” on the Berwyn series
Communication Arts: “Making Buildings Sing”
Exhibitions
Chicago Architecture: Ten Visions, Regenstein Hall, Art Institute of Chicago, 2004–2005
Building Images: Seventy Years of Hedrich Blessing Photography, Chicago Historical Society, 2001
Monet to Moore: The Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation, Art Institute of Chicago, 2000
Books
AIA Guide to Chicago
Beachside: Windsor Architecture and Design: Podesta Residence
At Home in Chicago: Wood House
Guide to Chicago’s Twenty-First-Century Architecture
Brininstool + Lynch: Making Architecture: Podesta Residence, Wood House, Claremont House, Meyer Residence, Basecamp, Blue Office as well as Racine Art Museum
Contextual Minimalism: Wood House
Chicago Architecture and Design: Wood House
Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future
The Designer’s Field Guide to Collaboration: Basecamp as well as Sterling Partners
Houses Now: Living Style
Sustainable Commercial Interiors
Toward a Zero Energy Home
Color Planning for Interiors
Makers: A History of American Studio Craft
HOK: A Global Design Portfolio
VOA Associates Incorporated
Over twenty other books from his years at Hedrich Blessing