Residential
Custom homes designed around the client's ideas, daily life, and the realities of construction.
McAlpine
Architects
Bringing your idea to life. Custom homes, additions, remodeling, and commercial architecture shaped around the people who will use it.
View selected work
What the practice designs
From first sketch
through completion.
Remodeling
Additions and remodeling that work with the existing home while creating a more functional next chapter.
Commercial
Experience across offices, restaurants, animal hospitals, day care facilities, religious institutions, and more.
One connected scope
Architectural and construction-management experience support the work from conceptual design toward completion.
Selected work
Homes and places built for how people live.
McAlpine Architects is licensed in Illinois and Wisconsin, with work spanning residential and commercial building types.
Residential
St. Charles, Illinois
A residential example from the practice's official portfolio.
Residential
Designed around daily life
Custom homes begin with the client's ideas and carry them into a buildable architectural direction.
Remodeling
Working with what is already there
The official remodeling gallery pairs before-and-after views to show how existing homes can be reconsidered.
Commercial
Across building types
The commercial portfolio includes medical, restaurant, office, recreation, and day care work.
From idea to completion
A clear architectural path.
Listen
Begin with the client's ideas, needs, and the way the project should feel and function.
Design
Develop an architectural direction informed by design expertise and construction knowledge.
Guide
Carry the work from conceptual design toward completion with practical advice along the way.
Principal architect
Arif T. McAlpine
Arif is an Iowa State graduate with architectural and construction-management experience. Before starting his own practice, he served as a project architect for design-build firms in Lake Forest, Illinois.
McAlpine Architects was founded in 2002 and is licensed in Illinois and Wisconsin.
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