Facility for Worship,
Performance
Church Auditorium Has 7,400
Seats
Part performing arts center and part worship facility, the
7,400-seat Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington,
Ill., has demanded creative thinking from its designers and
builders.
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Chicago Market
Sobering Thoughts
Chicago-area construction firms reveled during the boom of
the late 1990s and early 2000s, regularly knocking back annual
increases in new building. Full
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A Residence Hall
Rises
Loop Dormitory Called Nation's
Largest
Chicago buildings have inspired a lot of superlatives, such
as the nation's tallest skyscraper and world's largest store.
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Glenview Naval
Air Station Redo
Glen Town Center Cleared for
Takeoff
One of the biggest logistical headaches at the Glen Town Center
project in Glenview, Ill., was the need to keep hundreds of
workers functioning efficiently in a constrained area overrun
with trucks and construction work. Full
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Project in Magnificent
Mile
Two-in-One Building Holds
Hotel, Parking
Carefully phased concrete pours, an unusual crane placement
and a monorail system for hanging precast are some of the
innovative measures employed on the Magnificent Mile Courtyard
by Marriott in downtown Chicago. Full
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Cultivating
the Field Museum
Underground Space to Allow
Lakefront Facility to Add to its Artifact Collection
Insects, dinosaurs and seemingly everything in between are
studied at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History.
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Art Museum Expansion
Indianapolis Project a Work
of Art
When the Indianapolis Museum of Art was redesigned, trustees
decided the building should boast an eye-catching oval entryway
that would allow patrons to become oriented to and begin their
visits at the museum.
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Top 2003 Design
Firms
Signs of Stabilizing Emerge
in Design
The annual Midwest Construction survey of design firms in
Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin found billings for the top
130 companies in the tri-state region last year were $1.6
billion.
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