Midwest Construction's
Best of 2004 Awards
Forty-five projects throughout the Midwest are being honored
for excellence in construction and design. They cover traditional
fields, like transportation, health care and higher education,
and the less-celebrated areas of interior design/fitout and
environmental construction.
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Project
of the Year: Overall
Gerald C. Ratner Athletics Center
at the University
of Chicago
The Gerald C. Athletics Center at the University of Chicago
represents a couple firsts. It is the first athletics facility built on the Hyde
Park campus is more than 50 years. And, the structure is reportedly the first
asymmetrically supported splayed-cable building in Chicago and possibly the first
in the country.
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Project
of the Year: Commercial
ABN AMRO Plaza
ABN AMRO North America
had specific needs when it decided to consolidate its Chicago offices and build
a facility with expansion flexibility.
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Project
of the Year: Cultural
Overture Center for the Arts Phase One
The Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, Wis., is a multi-venue center for
the performing and visual arts located in downtown Madison.
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Project
of the Year: Health Care
St. Luke's Medical Center
Cardiac Center and
Patient Tower
St. Luke's Medical Center saw increasing demands in surgery,
intensive care and medical/surgical beds Full
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Project
of the Year: Higher Education/Research
Graduate School of Business
Hyde Park Center
at the University of Chicago
Students and faculty have stopped going
to the five existing buildings in the University of Chicago Graduate School of
Business because the GSB's Hyde Park Center opened in September.
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Project
of the Year: Industrial
Terminals 2 and 3 Air-handling Unit Replacement
at
O'Hare International Airport
Forty-two air-handling units have been
replaced in terminals 2 and 3 at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago
But
contractors working on the $15 million, 400,000-sq.-ft. warehouse for RC2 Corp.
in rural Rochelle, Ill., have found there can be problems, too.
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Project
of the Year: Institutional
Kam L. Liu Building
at the Chinese American
Service League
The Chinese American Service League's Kam L. Liu Building
needed to bring together under one roof the distinct social service programs for
recent Chinese immigrants to Chicago. Full
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Project
of the Year: Library Construction
Oak Park Public Library
Creating an
important civic building was an overriding goal for the library project in west
suburban Oak Park, Ill.
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Project
of the Year: Residential/Housing
University Center of Chicago
The University
Center of Chicago is an 18-story student residence in the city's South Loop and
is reportedly the nation's largest multi-university dormitory. Full
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Project
of the Year: Renovation/Rehabilitation
Hard Rock Hotel Chicago
Designed by
Daniel and Hubert Burnham, the 38-story Carbide & Carbon Building in Chicago is
a gem. Full Story
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Project
of the Year: Site/Landscaping
Crown Fountain
The Crown Fountain in
Chicago's Millennium Park was intended to create an interactive space to celebrate
the diversity of Chicago's residents.
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Project
of the Year: Small Projects
Urban Ecology Center
The Urban Ecology
Center is an environmental community center in Milwaukee's East Side at Riverside
Park.
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Project
of the Year: Transportation
South Lake Shore Drive Reconstruction
South Lake Shore Drive in Chicago was in dire need of reconstruction. Some sections
dated to the early 1900s, and the famed thoroughfare carries more than 100,000
vehicles each day.
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