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Due to its former use as a training facility for Navy gunners, the U.S.
Navy wants to demolish this SOM-designed building to make way for a new
officers’ food galley. A study by SOM on behalf of Landmarks Illinois
has demonstrated economic feasibility to renovate and reuse the building as a
food gallery. However, the Navy is continuing to push for demolition, citing
a slight cost advantage for demolition/new construction. SOM and Landmarks
Illinois have been given an end of the year deadline to demonstrate a zero
cost differential. The building has been subject to a federally mandated
Section 106 review process to which Landmarks Illinois has been a consulting
party.
The building was a groundbreaking modern design for a military base,
utilizing glass and steel curtain walls and a structural system of huge
overhead trusses that span the entire interior. The design concept
had root in the work of Mies Van der Rohe and the industrial plant designs
of Albert Kahn. Its principal architect, Bruce Graham, architect of the John
Hancock Center, is considered one of the leading designers of high-rise
buildings from the 1950s-early 1980s.
Photo: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
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HOW CAN I HELP?
As a constituent or
interested citizen, we hope you will contact Representative Kirk in
support of this important preservation issue.
Click here for
additional information.
Representative Mark Kirk
10th Congressional District Office
707 Skokie Blvd., Suite 350
Northbrook, IL 60062
(847) 940-0202
(847) 940 7143 fax
www.house.gov/kirk
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