Northwestern University broke ground today on the latest addition to their downtown medical campus: a glassy, high-rise complex for biomedical research that architects Perkins + Will have previously described as “a high-tech loft.”
The Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Biomedical Research Center replaces Bertrand Goldberg’s old Prentice Women’s Hospital, which was demolished last year after a contentious preservation fight ended with the Commission on Chicago Landmarks voting unanimously to deny the building protection.
Part of Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, the new 600,000 square foot, 12-story research center will include nine laboratory floors, and could eventually reach 1.2 million square feet with the addition of a 40-story tower in future phases of construction.
(Northwestern University, Perkins + Will)
