| IIT – MCCORMICK TRIBUNE CAMPUS CENTER, USA, CHICAGO, 2003 |
| A dense mosaic of programs unites in the centre of Miess historic campus, underneath Chicagos "L" |
By Philippe Ruault© All rights reserved
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Panoramic Walkthrough 1 | Panoramic Walkthrough 2 The McCormick Tribune Campus Center seeks to reinvigorate the urbanism inherent – but long since neglected – in Mies van der Rohe's 1940 masterplan for the Illinois Institute of Technology. The large single-storey Campus Center provides a focal point for the previously sundered halves of the campus, and features a noise-absorbing steel tube wrapping the Elevated metro that runs directly over the building and, inside, a dense mosaic of programs including a bookstore, food court, café, auditorium, computer centre, and meeting spaces. more... |
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FACT SHEET
Project: McCormick Tribune Campus Center Status: Competition: 1997 Completed: 2003 Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA Site: At the center of the Illinois Institute of Technology’s historic campus designed by Mies van der Rohe, underneath Chicago’s Elevated metro and neighbouring a landmarked Mies pavilion. Program: 10,690 m2 campus center Client: Illinois Institute of Technology Budget: $35 million COLLABORATORS R+D: Erik Schotte, Bill Price Models: Vincent de Rijk, Bert Karel Deuten, Marc Guinand, Gaspar Libedinsky Architect of Record: Holabird & Root – Frank Castelli, Greg Grunloh, Dennis Vovos, Lyndsey Gemmell , Bryce Hanna, Michael Pancost, Jennifer Snider, Ji-Hun Jun Interior Architecture: Han Ying Lee, Michell Dremmer more... PRESS New York Times, 2 October 2003 Washington Post, 2 November 2003 Los Angeles Times, 2 November 2003 Architecture Week, 19 November 2003 more... CLIENT STATEMENT "The Campus Center fulfills our vision to create a nucleus for this university ... Our exceptional students deserve this one-of-a-kind space and at the same time it solidifies IIT's leadership role in architectural innovation: from the birth of Mies van der Rohe's revolutionary modernism to Rem Koolhaas's daring concept that inspires the next generation of architects and designers." –ex-IIT President Lew Collens. |
CREDITS
Partner in charge: Rem Koolhaas Project Manager: Dan Wood, Jonilla Dorsten Project Architects: Kristina Manis, Anne Filson, Jeffrey Johnson, Sarah Dunn Team: Adrianne Fisher, Matthias Hollwich, Krystyan Keck, Eliot Bu, Julien Monfort, Julien de Smedt, Martin Felsen, Gro Bonesmo, Gary Bates, Fernando Romero Havaux, Frans Blok, Christian Müller, Vanessa de Assis Lamounier, Matteo Poli, Adam Kurdahl, Christina Fuchs, Uwe Herlyn, Bruce Fisher, Angela van der Zee, Tuomas Toibonen, Laura Gilmore, Becca Dudley, Joshua Prince-Ramus QUOTES "Rem Koolhaas hasn't just brought the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) new architecture – he is also bringing it new architecture students. The construction of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center has resulted in a doubling in the size of the freshman class this year, according to Dean Donna Robertson. Graduate enrollment has also increased by more than 50 percent. Robertson credits the spike directly to the new Koolhaas building." –Architect's Newspaper VISIT Docent-led tours 10am and 1pm only; $5 South Federal Street, Chicago, IL 60616-3793, USA http://www.iit.edu |
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