Why Optima Residents Choose to Rent
Choosing where to live is choosing how to live. What makes a home feel like home is being redefined. Ownership isn’t the only way to put down roots anymore, and for a growing number of residents, it isn’t the preferred way either. An Opti…
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…
How to Choose Your Optima Community: A Guide to Finding the Right Fit
For more than four decades, Optima has been designing and building luxury residential communities across Arizona and …
Optima Lakeview Floor Plan Spotlight: The 1B-01 Residences
One of the most desirable apartment residences at Optima Lakeview is the 1B-01 floor plan. Thoughtfully scaled for in…
The Art of the Celebration: How Optima Communities Come Alive Through Events
Lakeview is one of Chicago’s most social neighborhoods, and Optima Lakeview is one of its most extraordinary bu…
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…
The Pickleball Effect: What a Sport Reveals About How We Want to Live
Every sport has a moment when it stops belonging to enthusiasts and starts belonging to everyone. Pickleball had that…
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,…
Designed to Sit In: The Furniture & Objects That Shape Optima’s Spaces
At Optima, design doesn’t stop at the building’s exterior. It runs all the way through, into every lobby,…
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…
From Canvas to Courtyard: The Artists Shaping Optima Spaces
At Optima, art has never been an afterthought. From the founding conviction that architecture should engage the whole…
Living Alongside Art: How Sculpture Transforms a Community
Most people experience great art on a schedule, a museum visit, a gallery afternoon, a curated occasion. At Optima La…
What It Means to Live the Optima Way
At Optima Lakeview, we’ve asked the same question from the very beginning: what does it mean to build a place w…
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’…