Key Contemporary Developments in Illinois, United States of America
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Major Projects, alphabetical:
111 South Wacker
2005
Goettsch Partners
office tower: 53 storeys, 1.5 m sqft
155 North Wacker
-
Goettsch Partners
340 on the Park
2007
Solomon Cordwell Buenz
62 storeys
860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments
1951
Mies van der Rohe, Architect
twin rectilinear towers
Aqua Tower - proposal
2008-
Studio Gang Architects
Chicago tower
Art Institute of Chicago Modern Wing, Chicago, USA
2007-09
Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Chicago Federal Center
1974
Mies van der Rohe, Architect
Chicago Federal Center building
Chicago Institute galleries
2007-
wHY architecture
Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center, 71 W. Van Buren St.
-
Harry Weese & Associates
Chicago O'Hare International Airport - Part Redevelopment
2000-04
Murphy/Jahn Architects
Claremont House
2007
Brininstool + Lynch
Claremont House
Crown Hall + IIT Masterplan
1940-
Mies van der Rohe, Architect
IIT Chicago building
Fordham Spire - aka Chicago Spire : proposed skyscraper
2006-10 [currently delayed, 2008]
Santiago Calatrava Architects
Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio, Oak Park
-
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frederick C. Robie House : see Robie House
1906
Frank Lloyd Wright
Graduate School of Business - University of Chicago
2005
Rafael Viñoly Architects
Harold Washington Library Center, 400 South State Street
1991
Hammond, Beeby & Babka with A. Epstein & Sons International
Project director: Thomas Beeby
$195m
IBM Building, 330 North Wabash Avenue
1971
Mies van der Rohe, Architect with C. F. Murphy Associates
IIT Student Housing, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2001-03
Murphy/Jahn Architects
Illinois Blue Cross HQ
2006-10
Goettsch Partners
796 ft high
24 storeys added above existing 33 storey building, also by Goettsch Partners
$270m
For Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois
Inland Steel Building, 30 W. Monroe
1956-57/58
Skidmore Owings Merrill Architects - Walter Netsch
James R. Thompson Center, 100 W. Randolph Street
1985
Murphy/Jahn with Lester B. Knight & Associates
Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park
-
Gehry Partners, LLP
Millennium Park Chicago
John Hancock Center – ‘Big John’, 875 North Michigan Ave
1970
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill – SOM
John Hancock Center : famous Chicago landmark
Marina City – ‘Corncob towers’, 300 N. State St
1967
Bertrand Goldberg
Mixed-use development
McCormick Tribune Campus Center - IIT, 3201 South State St
2003
Rem Koolhaas Architects / OMA
McCormick Place West - Expansion
2007
Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates
$882m
Millennium Park Music Pavilion and Great Lawn: see Jay Pritzker Pavilion link above
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 220 East Chicago Avenue
1996
Josef Paul Kleiheus
Northwestern University - Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music
2008-
Goettsch Partners, Inc.
Northwestern University building
Office Tower, Chicago
1997
Goettsch Partners
446ft high
Prentice Women’s Hospital
1974
Bertrand Goldberg Associates
The Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts
2007-11
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
International Architecture Competition winners
Shortlist: Hans Hollein; Fumihiko Maki and Associates; Morphosis; Studio Daniel Libeskind; Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
Approx. cost: $100m
For University of Chicago
Richard J. Daley Center
1965
C. F. Murphy Associates with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill – SOM + Loebl, Schlossman & Bennett
Robie House, 5757 Woodlawn Avenue
1906
Frank Lloyd Wright
For bicycle / motorcycle manufacturer Frederick C. Robie
The University of Chicago have owned the Robie House since 1963
Sears Tower, Wacker Drive
1973
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Sears Tower
Sears Tower modernization and hotel
2009-
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Sears Tower modernization
Sixteen at Trump Hotel
2008
Ivanka Trump with Valerio Dewalt Train Associates
Soldier Field football stadium
-
Wood + Zapata with Lohan Caprile Goettsch Associates
SOS Children's Villages : Lavezzorio Community Center
2008
Studio Gang Architects
SOS Children's Village Chicago
The Sporting Club at Illinois Center
1987-90
Kisho Kurokawa
University of Chicago Hospitals - New Pavilion
2010
Rafael Vinoly Architects
image from Rafael Viñoly Architects 220107
1,080,000 sqft
Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Condominium Tower - proposal
-
Destefano and Partners
335m high, 100 storeys - proposed
Zero-energy tower - proposal
2007-
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
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Illinois Institute of Technology, USA: 1959
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