Racinowski Design Studio

2024 Home + Design

Gold Award Winner

Milwaukee Magazine

We are dedicated to creating unique buildings with beautiful, healthy, light-filled spaces that enrich our clients’ lives, our communities, and the environment. We partner with trusted consultants and contractors to produce award-winning architectural works, including new residential and commercial projects, renovations, additions and historic restorations.


Projects

Chenequa

Lake Drive Modern

Beach House

M.P. Johnson Renovation

Shorecliff

FLW ADELMAN RESIDENCE

Tannenbaum Renovation

EISNER RESIDENCE

Adelman Headquarters

Wrayburn Addition

Waubesa

Northwoods Trail

Russell Barr Williamson

Erie Loft

 

In Progress

Wildwood

Aldo Residence

Elkhart Lake

Lake Kegonsa

Highland Park

 

 

About

 

We are dedicated to creating unique buildings with beautiful, healthy, light-filled spaces that enrich our clients’ lives, our communities, and the environment. 

Honesty of materials, clarity of form, and consideration of local climate and context are fundamental components to our design process.  Our hope is that the work we create today will someday be worthy of restoration by future generations.

We are small and specialized, allowing us to give each project the attention it deserves.  Projects range in size from modest interior renovations to complex new buildings.  We engage in a multi-disciplinary approach involving close collaboration with engineers, consultants, fabricators, and builders to achieve a strong understanding of the construction process and attention to detail.

We work in conversation with clients, listening without preconception, generating ideas and possibilities together, and finding clear and compelling solutions. 

We are a full-service design firm, including new residential and commercial projects, renovations, additions, and historic restorations.

We all impact the natural environment with our actions, and believe building design should promote environmental responsibility.  This can occur through the use of natural/recycled materials, minimizing energy and utility consumption, orienting the building with the sun, reducing construction waste…and many others.

Justin is a leading resource and proponent for the restoration and preservation of mid-century modern architecture in the local community.  He lives with his wife in a 1958 MCM home designed by local architect Abe Tannenbaum.

 
 
 

Justin Racinowski

Principal and Lead Design

Elizabeth Martin

Marketing Director

Michael Blodgett, P.E.

Blodgett Engineering Structural Design

 
 
 

Awards

Gold Award - Milwaukee Home + Design Awards, 2024

Finalist - Best Architect Milwaukee, Shepherd Express 2023

Silver Award - Milwaukee Home + Design Awards, 2023

Named Best Architect Milwaukee, Shepherd Express 2021

Home Builder Digest, Best Residential Architects List, 2021

Named Best Architect Milwaukee, Shepherd Express 2020

Professional Builder Design Award, Custom Home 2019

Finalist - Best Architect Milwaukee, Shepherd Express 2019

NARI Wisconsin Remodeler Award 2019 Gold

Finalist - Best Architect Milwaukee, Shepherd Express 2018

Named Best Architect Milwaukee, Shepherd Express 2017

National AIA Residential Architect Award for Preservation

American Society of Interior Designers, Gold Award 2015

NARI Wisconsin Remodeler Award 2015 Gold

Publications

Our projects have been featured in:

Architectural Digest

Atomic Ranch

Better Homes and Gardens

Dezeen

Home Builder Digest

Midcentury Home

Professional Builder Magazine

Milwaukee Magazine

M Magazine (MKE Lifestyle)

Shepherd Express

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel


Selected Blog Articles


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