Google Maps has finally updated street view for 60th street in front of the Study Hotel and Rubenstein Forum.
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Appreciate your updates to this forum! It's the main way I follow all the cool new stuff going on at my alma mater. |
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https://app.oxblue.com/open/clarkcon...xedusefacility |
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New Engineering and Science Building
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Other Hyde Park/U of C projects I'm following in 2023: U of C's completion of the new Kimbark Parking Garage south of the Midway. It's scheduled to open this month, and I'm curious to see if the University will move on next to remove the parking lot behind the next door Keller Center. I've seen some early visualizations of the project that would extend the landscaped Campus South Walk (formerly the Mid-Block Connector) behind the Rubinstein Center into the Keller Center block. The new engineering and science building that's set to replace Accelerator. The design should be released this year, and we all know it'll be big. What I'm most interested in is how it will be integrated into the surrounding campus environment. In particular, I'm hoping the designers don't miss the chance to use the building to frame the iconic Nuclear Energy statue just to the east, which Accelerator blocks from the view pedestrians in the North Sciences Quad. A generous entrance way from Ellis Ave. into the Quad would fix that. The Metra 59th-60th Streets Metra Station. The 60th Street station has been boarded up for decades. With the Obama Center under construction just a block away--and set to open in 2025--Metra will be rehabilitating the elevated tracks and classical underpass. Construction will hopefully start by the end of the year. This will be an unprecedented opportunity for the University to activate a traditionally sleepy part of the south campus. Hopefully, U of C planners are thinking about how to coax Obama Center visitors to turn west onto campus before they get back on the Metra. One suggestion: Put a student bookstore or other amenity in the University Press Building on 60th right next to the station. Looking forward to finally seeing the opening of the Arts Lawn between Garfield and 55th just west of Washington Park. The University's foothold on the soon-to-be-Campus West is continuing to grow. I'm also following the University's ongoing pedestrianization improvements. Plans are underway to extend the brilliant pedestrian path along 58th Street west from the Bookstore to Drexel Ave. A landscaped plaza is planned for the old emergency room entrance and parking lot across from Kovler Hall. Although I doubt anything big will be on tap in 2023 in Campus South, I've got my eye on the block between Ingleside and Ellis that houses the Crown Family School of Social Work (formerly SSA). The School's Mies-designed building is a crown jewel on campus, but it's typically overlooked because, I think, the design environment of the block it's on is terrible. Replacing the parking lot on the block with landscaped pedestrian paths would be a good start. |
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Doesn't help the kids living in Campus South much today, though. |
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https://www.hdrinc.com/portfolio/arg...ences-building |
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I mean, people realize 2000? Right? That's a lot of people. |
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Based on that standard, Hyde Park isn't missing anything. For what it's worth, Hyde Park didn't have everything I was looking for when I lived there as a student back in the day. So I moved in closer to the Loop. I don't think more bars, restaurants, or access to public transportation in Hyde Park would have changed that decision. I just wanted to be closer to center of the city where stuff was going on. |
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Jumped out at me too....assuming a typo! |
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Still excited for the design reveal, but whenever a major U of C project comes along, I'm not necessarily looking for design work from HDR. Sure, there's decent stuff in their portfolio, but a good amount of it is fairly dialed-in, pedestrian. Has the architect for the Cancer Center been announced? |
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For instance, I like Jeanne Gang and love Campus North. But compare UChicago's brilliant Rubenstein Forum with the mediocre Harvard Rubenstein "tree house" conference center just announced. Also, the firms that did a nice B school and hospital for UChicago did an ugly box B school for Northwestern and blah hospital for Stanford. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:H...hew_Bisanz.jpg https://stanfordhealthcare.org/disco...tal-story.html A very high placed source tells me the cancer center design is done and is quite nice. I hope that bears out. (And if you don't like the designs when they are announced, be sure to send a message to the powers that be telling them so.) Correction: Rafael Viñoly did UChicago Hospital and B School and Stanford Hospital. KPMB Architects did Northwestern B school. But I stand by the appraisals. |
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New cancer hospital rendering released.
https://www.hpherald.com/evening_dig...1ee2c224c.html https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.town...size=697%2C660 |
I guess that skybridge across 57th is going to the sky lobby in CCD?
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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...pg?format=500w |
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https://perkinswill.com/project/loui...search-center/ |
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"The Medical Center proposes a master design project seeking approval for architectural and other pre-project costs necessary to complete planning for the construction and equipping of approximately 544,000 square foot building. The building will be seven stories and include: a 128-bed inpatient hospital with all private rooms." https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/hfsr...%20Project.pdf The HP article says it's still 500,000 sq. ft. and 128 patient rooms. I'm guessing still 7 stories but I could be wrong. |
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I'm curious to see what the main entrance looks like. There doesn't appear to be one in the photo that was released. So perhaps it is on the opposite side of the building. Although it's rather curious the entrance faces away from the ER and CCD. But I hope people will send comments / suggestions to University and Alderman. They made some changes to the Sophy Hotel when people thought it looked a bit suburban. |
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From the rendering, the main entrance looks like it might be on Maryland across from the entrance to the street level entrance to Parking Lot B. That would make sense, but it's hard to tell from what we've got here. |
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https://www.cleveland.com/news/2022/...ommentary.html |
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I think UChicago can live with one street like Maryland Ave. with a mass of buildings, but I hope as campus expands in the future these types of streets will be limited. And the zoning you mention should help. Anywho, Trip reports cancer hospital will be more expensive and larger than originally expected but with fewer beds. 80 in stead of 128. However, it appears there will be plenty of "shell space" to build out in the future. So it appears the facility will eventually be back to 128 beds. https://www.chicagotribune.com/busin...mfi-story.html |
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