Construction crews continue to add tiles of granite cladding to the Museum Tower’s exterior on the Obama Presidential Center campus in Jackson Park. And in September, they installed a glass art piece by Ethiopian-American artist Julie Mehretu on the building’s north façade. Titled “Uprising of the Sun,” the piece consists of 35 individual panels and measures 83 feet by 25 feet.
The Chicago Department of Planning and Development has selected the winning proposal for their West Garfield Park RFQ at 3811 W Madison Street. YIMBY originally covered the two finalists late last year, with the team now picking the winning proposal dubbed Westgate with some minor changes.
Structural steel is rising into shape for the AbbVie Foundation Cancer Pavilion at the University of Chicago in Hyde Park. General contractor Turner Construction has the steel up to the underside of the fourth and fifth levels as it begins to wrap around the twin concrete cores.
The Chicago City Council has approved the mixed-use development at 2754 W Chicago Avenue in West Town. Located on the corner with N California Avenue, the proposaled structure will replace a vacant lot which previously held a two-story building. Efforts for the project are being led by Sustainabuild LLC who has worked on various structures nearby.
Inspire Woodlawn Townhomes are under construction in the 6200 block of South Woodlawn Avenue in the Woodlawn neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. Developer KMW Communities is building the Inspire Woodlawn complex, which includes single-family homes that are already built and sold, and six simplex and duplex condominiums that have yet to begin construction. Two of the single-family residences are located right across the street from these townhomes.
