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The Morgan Street Station for the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is the first new inter system station constructed in more than thirty years. [11] [12] This acute understanding has led to designs for the Cermak McCormick Place CTA station and the multi-phase expansion of the Chicago Riverwalk. [13]
Carol Ross Barney FAIA (born 1949) is an American architect and the founder and Design Principal of Ross Barney Architects.She is the 2023 winner of the AIA Gold Medal. [2] [3] She became the first woman to design a federal building [4] when commissioned as architect for the Oklahoma City Federal Building, which replaced the bombed Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
Cermak–McCormick Place is a "L" station on the CTA's Green Line. The station, designed by Chicago-based Ross Barney Architects and engineered by Primary Consultant T.Y. Lin International, is located at Cermak Road and State Street on the Near South Side of Chicago. The station includes three entrances – one on each side of Cermak Road and ...
Piers Taylor (born 1967/1968) is a British chartered architect and co-presenter of BBC Two series such as The House That £100k Built and The World's Most Extraordinary Homes.
It retained much of its original surroundings over the years and is considered one of "150 great places in Illinois" by the American Institute of Architects. [2] The station is located in the South Loop Financial District and is the closest CTA rail station to the Willis Tower, approximately one block west.
The following is a list of notable architects – well-known individuals with a large body of published work or notable structures, which point to an article in the English Wikipedia. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The newly created CTA closed the original Morgan station alongside nine others on the Lake Street Elevated on April 4, 1948, due to their low ridership and to speed up service along the line. [18] The closed stations were demolished in early 1949 and adaptively reused to make improvements to other "L" stations, including their wood and steel ...
Like other stations of the line, Kedzie, was replaced by new modern equipment built on the model devised by architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The Green Line and Kedzie reopened on May 12, 1996, in a temporary form until the station is fully completed and inaugurated on December 16, 1996.