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[4] [6] Preservationists and prominent architects (including at least six Pritzker Prize winners) had called on Northwestern and the City of Chicago to save the building, [9] appealing to Chicago's "global reputation as a nurturer of bold and innovative architecture". Jeanne Gang presented a reuse design incorporating the building into a ...
These buildings, built from 1946 to 1959, were designed by Chicago firms based in part on the Gropius plan. In addition, the landscaping on the campus was designed by modernist landscape architect Hideo Sasaki, [12] a colleague of Gropius's at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Marina City, Chicago River City, Chicago Old Prentice Women's Hospital Chicago. Bertrand Goldberg (July 17, 1913 – October 8, 1997) was an American architect and industrial designer, best known for the Marina City complex in Chicago, Illinois, the tallest reinforced concrete building in the world at the time of completion.
Stroger employs 300 attending physicians and over 400 fellows and residents. It has 1.2 million square feet (110,000 m 2) of floor space, and 464 beds.It is located at 1901 W. Harrison Street, and is a part of the 305 acre (1.2 km 2) Illinois Medical District on Chicago's West Side, which is one of the largest concentrations of medical facilities in the world.
The Dewey House, also referred to as Building 29, North Chicago VA Medical Center, is a historic building at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago, Illinois. Designed by David Adler, the Georgian Revival mansion was commissioned by future United States Representative Charles S. Dewey.
Bertrand Goldberg began design in 1971, after the consolidation of Passavant Deaconess Hospital and Wesley Hospital. It was named for Abra “Abbie” Cantrill Prentice. [4] It was opened in 1975. The building was vacated in 2011 [5] after serving as a hospital until the new Prentice Women's Hospital opened nearby at 250 East Superior Street in ...
Overhead of the hospital complex. St. Luke's Hospital was founded in 1864. [3] The St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing was established in 1885. St. Luke's merged with Presbyterian Hospital to form Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital in 1956. [4] Their nursing schools also united to create the Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing. [5]
Northwestern Memorial Hospital's roots date back to 1865 when the then Deaconess Hospital of Chicago was established by local reverend William A. Passavant Sr. and Lucy Rider Meyer of the Chicago Training School (later Garrett Theological Seminary), with a capacity of 15 beds.