Optima Lakeview®, completed in 2022, received a 2024 Green GOOD DESIGN Sustainability Award.

The award is part of a new “green” edition of GOOD DESIGN™, originally founded in Chicago in 1950 by Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames, and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. to promote and foster a greater public understanding and acceptance for Modern Design. For the Green GOOD DESIGN Sustainability Awards, the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design have joined forces on two continents to present this innovative and challenging new public program.

The Green GOOD DESIGN Sustainability Awards aim to bring a parallel public appreciation and awareness for new design thinking led by a current generation of visionary architects, designers, urban planners, corporations, governments, individuals, and private and public institutions for a design and a public environment based upon:

• Ideals of energy conservation

• Reduction of toxic waste and greenhouse gasses

• Diminishing dependence on fossil fuels

• A sensitivity for waste, pollution, and the depletion of the world’s energy resources

This new design approach centers on the idea of repairing our worldwide environments with sustainability and for total ecological restoration.

With the launch of Green GOOD DESIGN Sustainability Awards comes the intent to change consumer habits, restructure manufacturing output, influence the design of cities and public spaces, and raise a consciousness about our limited global resources and the disappearance of clean air, clean earth, and clean water.

At Optima®, we’re proud to be recognized for the exemplary design of Optima Lakeview®: the stunning, light-filled atrium, endless views of the neighborhood and Lake Michigan from the spectacular rooftop sky deck, and abundant amenity spaces. The inspired use of floor-to-ceiling glass, concrete and natural stone. A world-class collection of contemporary art and furniture in public spaces both inside and outside. Across the entire spectrum of design, our unique sense of form and function has allowed us to imagine the extraordinary in the heart of this storied neighborhood. And while our passion for sustainable, thoughtful design has always been part of the Optima culture, we have pushed our own boundaries to ensure that Optima Lakeview® offers a new, elevated sense of home for our residents and neighbors.