Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Chicago
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Official Name
The current legal building name.

Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Other Names
Other names the building has commonly been known as, including former names, common informal names, local names, etc.

Northwestern Medicine's Chicago Campus

Type

Complex

Status
Completed
Architecturally Topped Out
Structurally Topped Out
Under Construction
Proposed
On Hold
Never Completed
Vision
Competition Entry
Canceled
Proposed Renovation
Under Renovation
Renovated
Under Demolition
Demolished

Completed

Country

United States

City

Chicago

Function

education / hospital / laboratory / retail

# of Parking Spaces

1,080

Map of Buildings in Complex

Note: Only buildings that have GPS coordinates recorded are displayed.

 

List of Buildings in Complex

RANK
Name
Height
1 Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center Phase 2

183 m / 600 ft
2 Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

136 m / 447 ft
3 Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

131 m / 431 ft
4 Galter Pavilion

123 m / 402 ft
5 Northwestern Medicine 259 East Erie

117 m / 385 ft
6 Prentice Women's Hospital

96 m / 316 ft
7 Feinberg Pavillion

91 m / 297 ft
8 Ward Memorial Building

85 m / 279 ft
9 Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center

79 m / 258 ft
10 Prentice Women's Hospital Building

75 m / 245 ft

CTBUH Initiatives

SCB Hosts IIT Students for Office Visit, Lurie Hospital Tour

23 February 2018 - Event

Gensler's Chicago Office Hosts Presentations and Technical Tour

27 September 2016 - Event

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Research

28 April 2016

Challenges and Opportunities in Vertical Healthcare Design

Douglas King, VOA Associates

Vertical healthcare design is an emerging field with its own particular set of benefits and challenges. This building type will become more desirable and popular,...

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Global News

24 October 2022

Trustee Gives US$121 Million to Expand University's Biomedical Research Center

Northwestern University Trustee Kimberly K. Querrey (’22, ’23 P) and the Louis Simpson Trust have made a new US$121 million gift to Northwestern to advance...

 

Research

28 April 2016

Challenges and Opportunities in Vertical Healthcare Design

Douglas King, VOA Associates

Vertical healthcare design is an emerging field with its own particular set of benefits and challenges. This building type will become more desirable and popular,...

11 October 2019

Tall Buildings in Numbers: 50 Years of Tall Building Evolution

CTBUH Research

The default image of the skyscraper for the past 50 years in the public imagination has likely been the extruded, rectilinear corporate “box,” derived from...

CTBUH Initiatives

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23 February 2018

SCB Hosts IIT Students for Office Visit, Lurie Hospital Tour

As part of the CTBUH-IIT Academic Courses, a group of IIT architecture students visited the Chicago office of SCB and toured Lurie Children's Hospital.

27 September 2016

Gensler's Chicago Office Hosts Presentations and Technical Tour

As part of the CTBUH-IIT Academic Courses, a group of IIT architecture students visited the Gensler Chicago Office on September 27.

28 May 2015

CTBUH Chicago Tour the Ability Institute of RIC

CTBUH Chicago hosted a tour of Gensler's Ability Institute of RIC which is currently under construction and set to become the sixth-tallest hospital in the world.

12 September 2013

Young Professionals Tour Medical Tower Under Construction

The CTBUH’s Young Professionals Committee was treated to a tour of the under-construction Northwestern Medicine Outpatient Care Pavilion.