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Chicago Passive House takes shape
July 11, 2010
In Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood, an urban residential retrofit shall rise from a former taqueria and demonstrate that a Passive House is possible on a tight city lot… and a tight budget in this collaboration with Richard Avery.
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