McCormick Tribune Campus Center (Chicago, Ill.)

Organization

Staff Only

Biography

In July 1997, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago announced the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation International Design Competition to select an architect for the building which later became identified as the McCormick Tribune Campus Center (aka, MTCC) on the campus of Illinois Tech. Thirty-nine architects reviewed the initial submissions and chose five teams to submit models. The five finalists were: Peter Eisenman (New York), Zaha Hadid (London), Rem Koolhaas (Rotterdam), Helmut Jahn and Werner Sobek (Chicago and Stuttgart), and Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (Tokyo). The final presentations were held in Feb. 1998, with a public announcement and reception held on Feb. 5, 1998. Jury members who chose the winner were: James Ingo Freed, K. Michael Hayes, Phyllis Lambert, Mark Scogin (chair), Rick Solomon. On selection of the architect - Rem Koolhaas, Office for Metropolitan Architecture (aka, OMA), Netherlands - the McCormick Tribune Foundation announced a $10 million gift to the university (which was matched by the Galvin-Pritzker Challenge Grant) for the construction of the building. An Illinois FIRST $9 million grant for construction of the Exelon Tube (noise buffer around the Chicago CTA Green Line El, i.e., the elevated public transit train, which runs over the Campus Center) was announced by Gov. George Ryan on Dec. 7, 1999. Groundbreaking for MTCC was held in March 9, 2000, and the building was dedicated Sept. 30, 2003.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Building Reference files, 1896-2013

Collection

Identifier: 037.06.01

Scope and Contents The Building Reference Files collection consists of a mix of primary and secondary source material relating to the buildings and campuses of the Illinois Institute of Technology and its predecessor institutions. These files formerly served as "drop files" where archives staff collected clippings, ephemera, and photographs related to the buildings and campus, and as a result, many of the files consist wholly of secondary material (including photocopies and clippings from university...

Dates: 1895-2013

Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

McCormick Tribune Campus Center and State Street Village promotion collection, 2003

Collection

Identifier: 037.08.16

Description of the Collection

Materials resulting from promotion and publicity of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center and State Street Village opening events. Includes materials produced and distributed by Illinois Institute of Technology as internal and mass mailing from project development and construction stages through opening events. Print media coverage and architectural reviews are included. Box 1 consists of manuscript material, box 2 of oversize materials, and box 3 of miscellaneous unprocessed material.

Dates: 2003