Accolades

Lauren Coburn’s work has long captured the attention of design editors and discerning clients alike. Blending architectural integrity with an artful sense of detail, her projects have been celebrated in leading publications and honored with prestigious awards.

Each accolade tells a story — of spaces transformed, collaborations brought to life, and a design philosophy that values authenticity, craftsmanship, and timeless beauty.

The Leaders of Design seeks to elevate and enhance the value of design.

NextHaus Alliance is an award-winning design collective shaping luxury with intention. Through timeless design, conscious materials, and forward-thinking systems, the team creates luxurious sustainable, resilient homes built to endure for generations to come.​

Architectural Digest’s list of highly vetted design professionals developed to assist consumers in their search for localized, top tier- hand selected firms.​

HIUS CORE AND PHIUS ZERO Certification for Evanston Passive House - the 2,251st PHIUS CERTIFIED Passive House building in the US and Canada.

2025 Green Good Design International Award Winner

A highly prestigious international award ​The logo is used as a public symbol to identify products and graphics that meet rigorous criteria for design excellence. ​

Key aspects of what the "Good Design" logo signifies:
Design Excellence: The program emphasizes quality design of the highest form, function, and aesthetics, going beyond ordinary consumer products. ​
Quality and Endurance: It represents product excellence, endurance, and a strong public identity. ​
Sustainable Development: The award often focuses on environmental protection and social responsibility, promoting the concept of sustainable development. The "Green Good Design Award" specifically highlights examples of sustainable design. ​

2024 AIA IL Design Award Winner
Evanston's First Certified Passive House ​The Design Excellence Awards honor the outstanding work of AIA members, reinforce the value of great architecture, and highlight members’ contributions in designing equitable and sustainable places and spaces. ​

Future House Award of Evanston’s First Passive House
​Future House International Awards arise from the convergence of residential design and architectural vision, with the aim of championing and honoring novel and inventive residential projects on a worldwide level.​The award program seeks to define the best and most innovative cutting-edge designs for residential architecture before a global audience.​

2024 BLT International Design Award Winner
BLT Built Design Awards recognize and honour the expertise of all professionals involved in the realization of outstanding projects, on a global basis — from architecture firms and interior design experts to construction products and landscape architecture.​

Design Evanston Is an organization that unites the power of design with the community to create positive change in Evanston, IL. The ultimate goal is to make Evanston more livable, sustainable, and resilient through Advocacy, Community, Education, and Service.

The ICAA is an organization of professionals who come together to share their love and commitment to the timeless architectural principles of beauty, proportion, and observation that are embodied in classicism.​

The PowerHouse SMART organization’s ultimate goal is to support industry leaders with delivering the most innovating designs and breathtaking properties.​

Designs for Dignity, a Chicago nonprofit, transforms not for profit environments through pro bono design services and in-kind donations – empowering lives through design.​

2022 Best of Houzz Design

2023 Best of Houzz Design

2024 Best of Houzz Design

2025 Best of Houzz Design

Lauren graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a degree in interior architecture

Guest Critic for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago​

Designer of the Dining By Design space to represent the Merchandise Mart of Chicago

Designer of the Holly Hunt space for Design With Antiques, Merchandise Mart of Chicago

Speaker and host at The Art of Interior Design at Neiman Marcus