Construction has commenced on Chicago's new Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, a 288-bed facility that will replace Children's Memorial Hospital. Designed to achieve LEED certification, the 23-story building will have all private rooms with space for at least one parent to sleep overnight and a sky lobby on the 11th and 12th floors to provide views of Chicago and Lake Michigan for parents and visitors. Construction is being managed by a joint venture of Mortenson Construction, Elk Grove Village, Ill., and Power Construction Company, Schaumburg, Ill., and is expected to be complete in 2012. Three architectural firms—Zimmer Gunsul Frasca, Portland, Ore.; Solomon Cordwell Buenz, Chicago; and Anderson Mikos Architects, Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.—will share the design work for the project.
Private rooms, sky lobbies will be the focus of children's hospital
This article first appeared in the 200809
issue of BD+C.
