McCormick Tribune Campus Center (Chicago, Ill.)
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 32 Collections and/or Records:
McCormick Tribune Campus Center printed material, 1998
Illinois Institute of Technology's McCormick Tribune Campus Center printed matter, including publications, brochures and promotional materials resulting from the planning, development and construction stages of the MTCC, also preliminary landscaping plans.
McCormick Tribune Campus Center publicity collection, 1997-2004
An oversize portfolio of clippings and tearsheets from newspapers and magazines related to the Rem Koolhaas-designed building on the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago). Paul Terzino, who assembled the materials, served as the building's manager (Director of Campus and Conference Centers) from its opening in 2003 until Feb. 2006.
McCormick Tribune Campus Center Souvenirs collection, 2003
Four items produced to commemorate the opening of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center:
1) Baseball cap in scarlet and gray reading "Illinois Institute of Technology" in white lettering
2) Clear cube paperweight with school logo and name
3) Multisided geometric cube with black and white images of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center (construction photos by John Stamets, 2003)
4) White plastic bag with school name and logo in red
McCormick Tribune Campus Center videos, 2003
McCormick Tribune Campus Center videos, 2003
Mies van der Rohe Society interviews, 2002-2005
Noise Mitigation and the CTA Green Line: Catalyst for Campus and Community Transformation
Noise Mitigation and the CTA Green Line: Catalyst for Campus and Community Transformation; Proposal for Funding Support, a document created by Illinois Institute of Technology to solicit governmental and private support for the structure which came to be identified as the Exelon Tube above the McCormick Tribune Campus Center on the campus of IIT, November 1998.
Office of Communications and Marketing photographs and slides, 1975-2004
Photographs (prints and 35mm slides), videos, and CDs created or collected by the IIT Office of Communications and Marketing. A selection of topics that are depicted in the images are described at the series level.
Office of Development Photograph Files collection, 1996-2000
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