Lakefront Kiosk Competition

Check out KOO’s Lakefront Kiosk (or K(i)OOsk as we like to call it) submission for the Chicago Architecture Biennial. “One part kiosk, one part proscenium… one part weak form, one part near figure… one part urbane sophistication, one part utilitarian...

Upscale Baths

“Jackie Koo chimes in on the increased demand for luxury baths within hospitality design in her interview with Pamela Dittmer McKuen.” See Full Article Credit: Chicago Life Magazine May...

Wit Developer Plans 195-Room Streeterville Hotel

“The developer of the Wit Hotel in the Loop has picked Streeterville for its next project, adding to the crush of hotel rooms slated for the downtown market.”   See Full Article Credit: Crain’s Chicago Business Micah Maidenberg December 3,...
This Architect Moved From Philosophy to Actual Buildings

This Architect Moved From Philosophy to Actual Buildings

“Jackie Koo’s architecture career began when she was a graduate student in the early 1990s at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she studied the field as an “angle of philosophy”—an academic discipline connected as much to literary...