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Dusk at IIT Bombay, as moisture laden clouds of the Southwest Monsoons converge over Hostel 12 & 13.
Illinois Institute of Technology Public Safety
Cook County, Illinois
November 2015
Photo by Asher Heimermann/Incident Response
A residence hall designed by Helmut Jahn. This is a really interesting building that I want to see and photograph again sometime this summer. Like much of the modern architecture on the campus, it begs to be seen when grass and trees come alive with color.
The McCormick Tribune Campus Center (MTCC) at 33rd and State Streets opened in September 2003. Designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, he was chosen for the project as a result of an international design competition in 1997-98.
In his essay “Miestakes,”Koolhaas describes the current IIT campus as marooned...swimming in space.” It had been “scraped” clean of its urban density, he says, and a long period of decay had resulted in the “disappearance of the city around it.” Now “it is no longer a void in an urban condition, but it is a void in a void.” And within the campus was still another void, where the Green Line and a long strip of surface parking lots cut the dorms to the east off from the classrooms to the west.
Koolhaas - whose blue-chip roster of participants in the Campus Center project includes the Chicago firms Studio/Gang/Architects and Holabird & Root, as well as international powerhouse Ove Arup - rejected the competition's requirement that the different functions of the Campus Center be stacked in a multistory building to muffle the noise from the “L.” He opted instead to "make a very flat building" in which the different elements-sports bar, bookstore, post office, cafe-would continually rub up against one another, creating new hybrid activities and a “simulation” of the dynamics of the urban condition. The “culture of congestion” in a single building.
For two days in 1997 Koolhaas used a team of students to track movement across the campus through the project site. They came up with a web of heavily traveled paths, which Koolhaas turned into walkways through the building that divide it into a “series of islands,” each with its own function and visual character.
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A view of the (very cool!) McCormick Tribune Campus Center (MTCC) at 33rd and State. This building opened in September 2003. It was designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas.
Paul V. Galvin Library, IIT
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Walter Netsch, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, arch. 1962
I was certain that this was another Mies building, but the web has taught me otherwise.
A tube surrounds the CTA elevated as it passes over IIT's McCormick Tribune Campus Center in order to dampen the sound of passing trains (notice that the lower portion of the tube is concrete even though it bears little structural load). Though this is clearly a functional structure, it has also become an architectural subject associated with Chicago.
"The Tube" above the IIT McCormick Tribune Campus Center. Chicago, IL.
Main Academic Building of Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Architect: Jughal Kishore Chowdhury
Style: Brutalist
Year: 1961
Just why India’s brainiest kids don’t make love? Click here to read the full story at The Delhi Walla.
*picture courtesy - Seema Kumar
James Thomason Building - the main administrative building of Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
The McCormick Tribune Campus Center (MTCC) at 33rd and State Streets opened in September 2003. Designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, he was chosen for the project as a result of an international design competition in 1997-98.
In his essay “Miestakes,”Koolhaas describes the current IIT campus as marooned...swimming in space.” It had been “scraped” clean of its urban density, he says, and a long period of decay had resulted in the “disappearance of the city around it.” Now “it is no longer a void in an urban condition, but it is a void in a void.” And within the campus was still another void, where the Green Line and a long strip of surface parking lots cut the dorms to the east off from the classrooms to the west.
Koolhaas - whose blue-chip roster of participants in the Campus Center project includes the Chicago firms Studio/Gang/Architects and Holabird & Root, as well as international powerhouse Ove Arup - rejected the competition's requirement that the different functions of the Campus Center be stacked in a multistory building to muffle the noise from the “L.” He opted instead to "make a very flat building" in which the different elements-sports bar, bookstore, post office, cafe-would continually rub up against one another, creating new hybrid activities and a “simulation” of the dynamics of the urban condition. The “culture of congestion” in a single building.
For two days in 1997 Koolhaas used a team of students to track movement across the campus through the project site. They came up with a web of heavily traveled paths, which Koolhaas turned into walkways through the building that divide it into a “series of islands,” each with its own function and visual character.
See the rest of this article at:
The McCormick Tribune Campus Center (MTCC) at 33rd and State Streets opened in September 2003. Designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, he was chosen for the project as a result of an international design competition in 1997-98.
In his essay “Miestakes,”Koolhaas describes the current IIT campus as marooned...swimming in space.” It had been “scraped” clean of its urban density, he says, and a long period of decay had resulted in the “disappearance of the city around it.” Now “it is no longer a void in an urban condition, but it is a void in a void.” And within the campus was still another void, where the Green Line and a long strip of surface parking lots cut the dorms to the east off from the classrooms to the west.
Koolhaas - whose blue-chip roster of participants in the Campus Center project includes the Chicago firms Studio/Gang/Architects and Holabird & Root, as well as international powerhouse Ove Arup - rejected the competition's requirement that the different functions of the Campus Center be stacked in a multistory building to muffle the noise from the “L.” He opted instead to "make a very flat building" in which the different elements-sports bar, bookstore, post office, cafe-would continually rub up against one another, creating new hybrid activities and a “simulation” of the dynamics of the urban condition. The “culture of congestion” in a single building.
For two days in 1997 Koolhaas used a team of students to track movement across the campus through the project site. They came up with a web of heavily traveled paths, which Koolhaas turned into walkways through the building that divide it into a “series of islands,” each with its own function and visual character.
See the rest of this article at:
IIT Delhi premier institute in India frequently appears in newspaper headlines for various reasons so I thought of posting photos for bloggers.
I was unprepared for the emotional impact this building had on me. The restoration is top notch. Highly recommend a visit.
Crown Hall
Mies van der Rohe at IIT
Chicago, IL
How might we develop an innovative service based on the Artificial photosynthesis technology” and create a business opportunity out of it?
Commons (1952-53) - Recently restored and incorporated into OMA's Campus Center, which lurks behind.
A woman studies the information board outside the Psychology office in Life Sciences for updates and opportunities to do research.
IIT Guwahati (November, 2015)
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In front of the main building. Unfortunately or luckily, depending on the perspective, the sign fails miserably in creating a proper atmosphere of studying for excellence.
Paul V. Galvin Library, IIT
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Walter Netsch, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, arch. 1962
A few days back I uploaded the same image, but with a different treatment. Here, with an orange filter, the first one--blue.
I never cease to be fascinated as to how different the images can be, depending on how we envision the final product.