One campus, many talents: “wondrous” new multifunctional facility unites disciplines, connects campus, and gives every student a leg up with new opportunities and experiences [Glendale Heights, IL] – Yesterday evening, Marquardt School District 15 hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Performing Arts Center at Marquardt Middle School. Construction started in September of last […]
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Beacon Place Expansion to Support Life Skills Development Programs in Waukegan
Legat Architects donates design to give a “hand up” to Waukegan community center [Waukegan, IL] – Many Waukeganites recognize “the big blue house” on McAlister Avenue as a welcoming place that is there to “give hope to dreams.” Beacon Place is a vacant house turned neighborhood community center that serves over 700 kids and adults […]
Canstruction Chicago Sculpture Benefits Greater Chicago Food Depository, Pays Tribute to U.S. Navy Blue Angels
Legat Architects and Leopardo Companies volunteers stack their way to stopping Chicago-area hunger with sculpture that celebrates headliners of the 59th Chicago Air and Water Show [Chicago, IL] – In mid-July, volunteers from Legat Architects and construction firm Leopardo Companies gathered at Leopardo’s warehouse. The challenge before them involved not the usual bricks, concrete, and […]
Grant Wood Elementary School Construction Underway in Bettendorf
New school design brings more space, more light, more community use, and more flexible learning opportunities for Bettendorf community [Bettendorf, IA] – Construction has begun on Grant Wood Elementary School, which will replace a 57-year-old facility of the same name. The old Grant Wood was dark and operationally inefficient, plus it had severe space shortages […]
North Scott High School Lancer Athletic Building Brings Much Needed Fitness and Recreation Space
Gymnasium and fitness/weight room to benefit high school athletic and physical education programs, feeder schools, youth and adult community programs [Eldridge, IA] – For North Scott High School, lack of fitness and gym space was a real headache. Athletes and physical education classes crowded into a weight room. The converted band room had poor ventilation, […]
Hyatt Place and Hyatt House Hotels in East Moline Bring Upscale Lodging to The Bend on the Mighty Mississippi
233-room combined Hyatt Place and Hyatt House hotels strengthen urban renewal with regionally-inspired design and spectacular views The Quad Cities region in northwest Illinois and southeastern Iowa is in the midst of a shift from manufacturing community to tourist destination. The latest sign of that is The Bend on the Mighty Mississippi, a premier mixed-use […]
College of Lake County Upgrades Put Student Services Center Stage
“Wow factor” drives design of additions and renovations to 45-year-old campus [Grayslake, IL] – Dr. Patrick Peyer, dean of enrollment services at College of Lake County (CLC), recently walked a former student through the college’s renovated and expanded campus. It was the ultimate test: the student hadn’t been there in two years, so she was […]
Lake County’s Largest Architect Models Next-gen Office with New Gurnee Studio
Contemporary . . . with a splash of shag: Legat Architects’ new digs designed to demonstrate strong design, enhance performance, and entice talent [Gurnee, IL] – Ted Haug, who has devoted his career to design, spent over 30 years at Legat Architects’ oldest studio. Early last year, the shag carpeting that still showed in that […]
Glenbard West High School Additions/Renovations Demonstrate Community’s Focus on Education
Community-supported projects relieve overcrowding, modernize science department, and preserve style of 94-year-old high school Visitors to Glenbard West High School’s classroom addition might be surprised at something they see outside: sitting amid the self-sustaining vegetation on one rooftop garden is a metal construction beam. Closer inspection reveals teacher and student signatures on that beam. Typically, […]
College of DuPage Homeland Security Training Center Achieves LEED Certification from US Green Building Council
Airtightness, optimized energy performance prove critical in first responder training facility’s sustainable accomplishment [Glen Ellyn, IL] – The College of DuPage’s Homeland Security Training Center (HTC) has several spaces that you are unlikely to encounter at any other college or university. One of them is an interior firing range. Even though law enforcement personnel use […]
College of Lake County Dedicates Café Addition, Renovated and Expanded Student Life Spaces
Student-focused spaces bring community feel to heart of college campus [Grayslake, IL] – For years, a rarely used student communal space resembling a sunken living room sat at the center of College of Lake County’s (CLC) main campus. Today, that same space is reimagined as a light-filled Student Commons connected to a new café, Welcome […]
La Grange Stone Avenue Train Station Restoration Wins Driehaus Preservation Award
Rehabilitation of 115-year-old community icon honored with Landmarks Illinois’ Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award [La Grange, IL] – Each year, Landmarks Illinois sets out to celebrate Illinois’ most outstanding historic preservation projects with the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Award. This year, the nonprofit organization faced the difficult task of choosing 9 winners from 39 […]
