Posted Sep 20, 2012, 6:34 PM
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Originally Posted by pyropius
COMPETITION TO DESIGN NEW MEDICAL RESEARCH FACILITY
Leading architects invited to come up with inspired design for building on former Prentice site.
EVANSTON, Ill. --- To achieve an inspired design that Northwestern University, the city of Chicago and the neighborhood can be proud of, the University announced today that, pending approval to demolish the original Prentice Women’s Hospital building, it will conduct a design competition, starting in 2013, for a new biomedical research facility.
http://www.northwestern.edu/newscent...-prentice.html |
Just a cheap (and offensive) ploy to try and buy off preservationists and the global architecture community. The issue of preservation is never a comparison to what is and what will be. Each building stands on its own merit.
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