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Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Northwestern Medicine's Chicago Campus
Complex
Completed
education / hospital / retail
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1 | Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | 2012 | 136.2 m / 447 ft | 22 | composite | hospital | |
2 | Shirley Ryan AbilityLab | 2016 | 131.5 m / 431 ft | 27 | steel/concrete | hospital | |
3 | Galter Pavilion | 1999 | 122.7 m / 402 ft | 22 | composite | hospital | |
4 | Northwestern Medicine 259 East Erie | 2014 | 117.5 m / 385 ft | 26 | steel/concrete | hospital | |
5 | Prentice Women's Hospital | 2007 | 96.3 m / 316 ft | 18 | composite | hospital | |
6 | Feinberg Pavillion | 1999 | 90.5 m / 297 ft | 17 | composite | hospital / retail | |
7 | Ward Memorial Building | 1926 | 85 m / 279 ft | 20 | steel | education | |
8 | Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center | 2019 | 78.6 m / 258 ft | 12 | steel | hospital | |
9 | Prentice Women's Hospital Building | 1975 | 74.7 m / 245 ft | 14 | concrete | hospital | |
10 | Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center Phase 2 | - | - m / - ft | - | steel | hospital |
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
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,...
28 April 2016
Challenges and Opportunities in Vertical Healthcare Design
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
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...
23 February 2018
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
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 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.
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