Reviews of BBA Architects (Architect)

Kyle Cole

Building your forever home is both a wonderful and terrifying experience—one hears countless stories of crippling city bureaucracy, shady contractors, blown budgets, and poor materials derailing projects and leaving home owners broke and feeling helpless. In about a month, we will be completing our construction having avoided all of those missteps and settling into our forever home here in Chicago that is above and beyond anything we ever had imagined—and it is entirely because we selected BBA as our architects. We will forever be indebted to Gary and Tim. Not only was this our first build, but it is our first home. After decades of saving, we needed partners that would be patient, incredibly experienced, great listeners, set a high standard of quality (as we had little to reference), and lead us through this process step-by-step. All told, our project took a year to plan and a year to construct. During that timeframe, BBA helped create our dream concept design, determine material and detailed plans of the space, conduct a financial feasibility project (before we committed to construction), introduce us to a number of trusted general contractors to select from, tackle all of the city permit paperwork (including the moving of a light pole!) and provide ongoing construction administration throughout the build to ensure the quality and intent of our project hit the high standards BBA represents. We trusted BBA—we trusted their experience, their skill, their standard for quality—and they did not disappoint. They gave our family an elegant, timeless, and comfortable space to call home for generations to come. (P.S. - and we had a lot of fun throughout!)

Matthew Sollitto

Tim Kress from BBA designed our home's first floor renovation. We had some conceptual designs from other architects and design/build firms, and can say with confidence that the concept and drawings that we got from Tim would not have been delivered by anyone else. He did a great job taking into account the way we wanted our house to fit our lives and delivered. While they are not inexpensive, this was among the best money that we spend on our project.