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Near South Community Plan
The Near South Community Plan will serve as a guide to future development of the South Loop and Near South communities by recommending future land use, open space and transportation improvements.
The plan provides development goals and projections for a two-square-mile area between Congress Parkway, Lakeshore Drive, the South Branch of the Chicago River and the Stevenson Expressway (I-55), not...
+ links,
Chicago GIS Chicago DATA MAP Chicago ZONING MAP Transportation Prospectives for 2000 Transportation Prospectives for 2020 Cook County Parking in Chicago
Chicago ENCYCLOPEDIA,Maps, Special Issues
CITY 2020 PLAN (refer to PDF) by CCAC (CHICAGO CENTRAL AREA PLAN) Chicago ZONING DEPARTMENT LINKS SITE ULI (Urban Land Institute) on Chicago Plan
For March 19th, Thursday Joint Review,
1st phase summary: (as many pages as you need)
Make sure that you develop a clear argument for your urban concept (the location and overall form of the building) based on your own 1st phase summary. The urban aspects (building foot print, various means of transportation and circulation, voids, light, green, city context, cultural aspects, program, etc.) should be represented in a clear analytical...
+ look,
1. Alvar Aalto: Wolfsburg Center, 1958-1962
2. Le Corbusier: Carpenter Center, USA, Cambridge MA, 1961-64
3. OMA:ZKM, Germany, Karlsruhe, 1992. TFA=33,681sqft.
4. Toyo Ito: Sendai Mediatheque, Japan, Sendai, 2000. TFA=213,383 sqft.
5. MVRDV: De Effenaar Cultural Center, Netherlands, Eindhoven, 2005. TFA=48,986 sqft.
6. NL Architects: Groninger Forum, Netherlands, Groningen, 2007....
+ reading,
Rem Koolhass, “Miestake” in Mies in America, edit. Phyllis Lambert. New York: H.N. Abrams, 2001.
Topic: Existing Building, Historic Preservation, Prefered Values.
SCHEDULES, REQUIREMENTS.
PROGRAM - DRAFT RESEARCH →
