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With rich stained glass windows, an ornate organ, intricate stone carvings, and a bronze plaque by Lorado Taft, Bond Chapel was designed by architects Coolidge & Hodgdon at the end of the Gothic revival period in America.
Mixing tradition and modernity, Chicago Booth’s Harper Center mimics the nearby Robie House with its continuous band of windows. Its interior provides a glass-enclosed quadrangle, with soaring Gothic arches made of glass.
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This view shows the buildings, pathways, and lawns from Smart Museum of Art and Greenwood Avenue.
Photograph by Steve Hall, copyright Hedrich Blessing
“The goal was to make a building that was more than for the 21st century, a building that had, if it did not have the whole host of cutting edge technologies, it would enable them to occur.”
—Rafael Viñoly referring to his design for the Center for Care and Discovery
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The Chicago Innovation Exchange’s nearly 20,000 square feet of space is located on the 2nd floor of Harper Theater, at the center of the newly thriving 53rd Street.
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Architect Henry Ives Cobb modeled Cobb Lecture Hall after Oxford University’s Gothic buildings.
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The building challenges the notion that Miesian architecture is out of place on UChicago’s campus. Its precise geometry complements the patterns inherent in Gothic architecture.
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The new Chicago Theological Seminary is a 78,000-square-foot four-story building.
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One of the many architectural innovations supporting the laboratories in the Cummings Life Science Center is the exhaust system housed in the 40 towers that extend upward along the exterior of the building.
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The Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine features six stories and 525,000 square feet of space for adult primary and specialty clinics, pediatric specialty clinics, and outpatient diagnostic and treatment facilities.
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Eckhardt Research Center is joined to the Kersten Physics Teaching Center by a bridge across 57th Street.
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Harper’s towers are similar to each other but still unique. The west tower, which resembles one at King’s College, Cambridge, has battlements that symbolize the secular state. The east tower, like Christ Church, has Byzantine imagery that appears ecclesiastical. This could suggest UChicago’s origins in both the divine and secular realms.
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The design of The Hong Kong Jockey Club University of Chicago Academic Complex | The University of Chicago Francis and Rose Yuen Campus in Hong Kong weaves into the contours of Mount Davis, suspending it above the historical site. It also includes adaptive reuse of key heritage buildings.
In 1915 LaVerne Noyes donated funds for the construction of a building to honor his late wife, Ida. Ida Noyes was initially constructed as a place for women to dine and swim, as well as a space that inculcated “tolerance, sympathy, kindness, the generous word, and the helpful act,” according to dean of women Marion Talbot.
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In contrast to its plain exterior, the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures’ interior exhibits the colorful and highly detailed ornamentation of the Art Deco style. The Deco touches can be seen in the generous amounts of Egyptian-like stenciling in a manner associated with “Egyptomania.”
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The Knapp Center almost gleefully proclaims modernity, but there are practical reasons as well for housing laboratories in glass. Transparency encourages researchers to interact and cross over into disciplines besides their own, in this case fields as diverse as computation, biophysics, genomics, and pediatrics.
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The Laboratory Schools’ main building largely follows the University’s template of the limestone campus but with spare ornament and simple symmetry.
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The design of the Law School reflects the architect’s ability to harmonize the new with the old.
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Edward H. Levi Hall anchors the main quadrangle’s west end.
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Edward H. Levi Hall fits naturally into the scenic landscape of the main quadrangle.
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While the horizontal stone slabs, large glass openings, and cantilevered protrusions distinguish the Logan Center from its Gothic counterparts across the Midway, Williams and Tsien established continuity by incorporating limestone and incredible height into the design, mirroring the appearance of some of the University’s oldest buildings.
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Mansueto’s design reflects Regenstein Library next door, as well as Mitchell Tower beyond.
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The light bridges seem to float over the Midway Plaisance.
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The Neo-Gothic integrity of the building’s exterior remains in tact while the interior is retrofitted for modern uses.
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Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta brought a touch of semitropical radiance to University residential living.
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The Gerald Ratner Athletics Center’s exterior is often described as a ship-like structure.
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Regenstein Library was designed to comfortably house 1.8 million volumes.
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Robie House’s horizontal lines, low-pitched roof, and incorporation of natural materials mimic the midwestern landscape.
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Named for the University’s founder, Rockefeller Chapel reflects a modern Gothic style, its smooth walls and simple ornamentation setting off the vaulted interior.
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Located at Woodlawn Avenue and 60th Street, the Forum’s unique position on the Midway
Plaisance provides expansive views toward campus and surrounding communities as well as
downtown Chicago and Lake Michigan.
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Saieh Hall of Economics is now home to the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics and the Department of Economics.
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The Threshold series brings a major installation of contemporary art to the Smart Museum’s reception hall and sculpture garden each year, ensuring that all visitors—whether they have come for a class, an exhibition, or a cup of coffee—will instantly encounter new art.
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Hutchinson Courtyard offers a picturesque view of the Christ’s Church-like Hutchinson Commons, as well as a space for outdoor dining, quiet repose or outdoor theater in the summer.
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Architect Helmut Jahn’s design for the chiller plant on south campus reveals the simple inner workings of the building.
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“It’s actually like a piece of equipment,” architect Helmut Jahn said of his utility plant for the University of Chicago. Pumps, boilers, chillers, cooling towers — the functions of the building are arranged vertically like a “kit of parts.”
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