Description of the Collection

Three pages of blueprints (27 x 41") for the Navy Building (later, Alumni Memorial Hall) by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Holabird & Root. Drawings are identified as First Floor Framing, drawing S2; 2nd Floor Framing, S3; and Roof Framing Plan, S4. All are dated 5/17/1945 and are identified as revisions of commission number 7774.

Content Description

This collection includes drawings, plans, blueprints, and other materials stored in the East Map Case. These materials are not all from the same source, nor are they a coherent collection by any factor other than that they are all stored together. See folder listings for an inventory of the items in this collection.

Description of the Collection

Blueprint Sheet (31" x 47") by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill of first floor (i.e., upper level) plan of The John Crerar Library (later the Paul V. Galvin Library). Job number 5763; drawing number A-2. Scale 1/8" = 1'-0".

Description of the Collection Blueprints produced by the Browne-Morse Company of Muskegon, Michigan (outfitters of buildings with laboratory furniture and equipment of their own manufacture and design) of proposed work for the Life Sciences Building at the Illinois Institute of Technology (under dates September 16 through December 29 of 1965). Drawings bear numbers 61634 through 61803 (with some numbers covering multiple sheets), for 179 sheets total. The drawings include not only floor plans from the Life Sciences...

Description of the Collection

Blueprint drawings for the McCormick Tribune Campus Center at Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago), including “the [Exelon] tube” through which The L (CTA train) will run. Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA; Rotterdam, Holland), Rem Koolhaas architect, and Holabird & Root LLP (Chicago), architect and engineers. This set of drawings is the 100% Design Development drawings dated Dec. 10, 1999 and Feb. 18, 2000.