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. Full
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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-X companies in the tri-state region last
year were $X billion.
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