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CDC approves TIF for Thrive Exchange
The Community Development Commission has approved $10.2 million in TIF funding and a land sale for Thrive Exchange, a mixed-use development planned for 7901 S. Exchange. As the winner of a recent Invest South/West RFP, the project will reactivate the intersection at...
#CNDA28 Winner: Koo LLC for the Altgeld Family Resource Center
Jun 29, 2022 Winner, 2nd place, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Architectural Excellence in Community Design Altgeld Gardens is a neighborhood that is largely isolated from the surrounding city due to industrial developments to the north and east...
Thrive Exchange presented to Committee on Design
The Committee on Design has reviewed Thrive Exchange, a mixed-use development planned for 7901 S. Exchange. As the winner of a recent Invest South/West RFP, the project will reactivate the intersection at the 79th St Metra stop and benefits from the new eTOD ordinance...
theWit Column Designs Featured on Around Town with Ana Belaval on WGN News!
KOO designed four, 30ft+ decorative column covers for theWit Lobby, working with 555 international to fabricate the covers, scheduled to be installed later this year. The column designs were inspired by works of pottery and pantone color-matched to theWit's iconic...
Altgeld Family Resource Center
The Altgeld Gardens public housing complex on Chicago’s far South Side has a long history of both hope and despair. It was built to be a community within the larger city for returning black veterans after World War II, but severe environmental hazards in the area led...
Thrive Exchange selected as winner for South Shore Invest S/W RFP
The winning proposal could begin construction as soon as Fall 2022As part of the two-year anniversary of Invest South/West, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced the winners of three more RFP’s, including the South Shore RFP. This RFP, as well as the other two, were selected...
Women Architects Who Have Made Their Mark on Chicago
Anew hotel at Navy Pier, the future DuSable Park just east of DuSable Lake Shore Drive, the dramatic St. Regis Tower and the wavy Aqua building, the austere Equitable Building next door to Tribune Tower, the vibrant GEMS World Academy, Chicago’s iconic Riverwalk. What...
Cook County Hospital Received the 2021 AIA Illinois Honor Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation as well as the Commission on Chicago Landmarks’ Preservation Excellence Award!
Congratulations, Hyatt House Chicago by KOO and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is a 2021 Best of Year Awards Finalist in the hotel transformation category!
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Taming Push Me Pull You: KOO’s Integrated Architectural and Interior Design Practice | NeoCon 2021
KOO is a Chicago-based full-service architecture, interior design & planning firm, founded by Jackie Koo in 2005. She is the first female Architect to build a highrise in the city of Chicago. Jackie received her undergraduate degree in Philosophy from the...
OMA & KOO @ UIC
The competition-winning design by OMA – Office for Metropolitan Architecture and KOO LLC for the University of Illinois at Chicago's Center for the Arts consists of two towers and some performance spaces beneath a tent-like roof. Credit:World-Architects.com
Curio Collection’s 100th property opens on Chicago’s Navy Pier
Sable at Navy Pier, which marks the 100th property milestone for Curio Collection by Hilton, has opened in Chicago. Developed and operated by Maverick Hotels & Restaurants, with an ownership group led by Acron AG, it is the first hotel to break ground on one of...
Design Conversations: Jackie Koo Takes Us Behind the Scenes at Navy Pier’s First Hotel
As Navy Pier, the iconic Chicago landmark gets revamped with a hotel of its own, Newcity sits down with Jackie Koo, founding principal of architecture, interior design and urban planning firm, KOO, for a glimpse at the design process. “Creating a design that could be...
KOO-designed SURGE esports arena gets the go-ahead for Chicago’s South Side
Chicago’s City Council has greenlit a $30 million proposed esports and virtual reality arena for a site along South Wabash Avenue that’s just a stone’s throw from McCormick Place, the largest convention center in North America, in the South Side neighborhood of...
What’s That Building? The Altgeld Family Resource Center
A new vibrant and environmentally positive building represents the type of sustainability that some Altgeld Gardens residents like Hazel Johnson fought for. Credit: WBEZCHICAGO
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