Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced that he’s in favor of allowing Northwestern University to tear down the former Prentice Women’s Hospital, a building preservationists had been fighting to keep.
Emanuel supports Prentice Hospital tear-down
October 30, 2012 By
More bad news for Prentice, Mayor backs University, has no problem with tearing it down.
About Joe Villanti
Joe Villanti, AIA, Founder of baselab., a full service architecture design studio, has been been practicing architecture in Chicago for over 15 years. Mr. Villanti specializes in mixed-use urban infill projects with a focus on sustainable high performance buildings. In addition to new construction, baselab., is adept at adaptive re-use including historic renovation and commercial and retail construction.
A big proponent of BIM, building information modeling, baselab. utilizes Archicad software by Graphisoft, a leader in the BIM software arena. There has been a lot of dialogue in the industry with regards to new methods of project delivery, specifically Integrated Project Delivery. IPD as it is referred to, coupled with BIM to achieve sustainable high-performance buildings, is said to be the path to the future of our profession. As an architect and a firm leader it is issues like this that are so important to the future success of baselab.. To stay in front of the wave, or better, to know which wave to catch is of vital importance.
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