The Kitchen at the Center: How Optima Designs the Heart of Every Home
In any well-designed residence, the kitchen tends to be where the architecture is most clearly felt. It might be the …
The Pool Is Always Open: Year-Round Outdoor Living at Optima Lakeview
At most residential buildings, the pool is open for a few warm months and closed for the rest. At Optima Lakeview, th…
The First Thing You Notice: Art, Furniture, and the Objects That Define Optima’s Lobbies
Walk into most apartment buildings and your eyes drift toward the elevator. Walk into an Optima community and they la…
The Science of the Good Night: How Your Home Affects How You Sleep
Sleep is often treated as something the body does on its own. But sleep researchers see it differently. Sleep is shap…
The New Home Office: How Optima Designs for the Way We Work Now
The way people work has changed more in the last five years than in the previous fifty. Remote work, hybrid schedules…
Bringing the Outside In: Biophilic Design and the Architecture of Optima Lakeview
Chicago has four seasons, two of which are genuinely hostile to outdoor life. The question that Optima Lakeview asks,…
From the Rooftop: Why Optima’s Sky Decks Are Unlike Any Other in the City
There is a moment that happens to almost every new resident of an Optima community. They take the elevator to the top…
How Green Building Design Protects Your Health — Not Just the Planet
Sustainable architecture gets a lot of attention for what it does for the environment. But there’…
The Art of Biophilic Design: Bringing Nature Home at Optima Lakeview
At Optima Lakeview, we believe that the best architecture doesn’t just shelter you from the natural world, it draws n…
Fountainhead and the Legacy of Modernism
In the hills of Jackson, Mississippi, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fountainhead stands as one of the architect’s most intimat…
Home for the Holidays: A Guide to Decorating Modernist Interiors
The holidays arrive gently inside a modernist home. Light stretches across expansive floors. Glass walls gather the s…
Walking Chicago: Discovering the City, One Block at a Time
Chicago is a walking city—not just along the lakefront or river, but through the layers of its architecture, neighbor…
Furniture Spotlight: Eames Lounge Chair
What can we possibly say about the Eames Lounge Chair that hasn’t already been said before?
Color Stories in Architecture: How Palettes Shape Our Perceptions
Color has always been one of architecture’s most powerful tools—not just for visual delight, but for emotional and ps…
Designing with Daylight: The Importance of Natural Light in Architecture
AtOptima®, the interplay of light and space is never an afterthought—it’s a foundation. From the shimmering desert of…