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Old Posted Apr 11, 2011, 3:39 PM
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Environmentalists battling to save Gang's Ford Calumet Environmental Center design

Will Jeanne Gang's acclaimed but unbuilt "Best Nest" design for the Ford Calumet Environmental Center fall victim to the same "value engineering" syndrome that marred Metra's new 35th Street station?

An environmental group on Chicago's southeast side fears it will.

In a letter sent to Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel, the group, the Calumet Park Ecological Park Association, frets that the design, which calls for a one-story glass building wrapped in a nest-like exterior (above), is in jeopardy.

"On March 15," the letter says, "Aaron Durnbaugh of the Chicago Department of the Environment informed a group...that within the next few weeks the city would start planning either a much-reduced version of Jeanne Gang's 'Best Nest,' or an entirely different design. This was a bombshell.".....
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