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Originally Posted by SamInTheLoop
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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Yeah, and that is a high profile location. However, I have seen examples of how architects who do a good job at UChicago do mediocre work elsewhere. I think it speaks to the University's involvement behind the scenes (although there is that durn Max Palevsky dorm, alas.)
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.