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Walter Payton College Prep Annex Wins CBC Merit Award 2017
At the Chicago Building Congress (CBC) Awards Dinner in May of 2017, KOO received the New Construction Chicago Under $55 Million Award for our work on Walter Payton College Preparatory High School Annex and Renovation! Credit: Chicago Building Congress
Elite Payton College Prep H.S. shows off new $20 million annex
"When students report for the first day of class Tuesday, they’ll find a spacious cafe, third-floor gym, black box theater, mirrored dance studio and more than a dozen additional classrooms in a bright new space at 1034 N. Wells St." Credit: Chicago Sun Times Lauren...
Plan Commission Approves New Hotel, Elevated Walkway at Navy Pier
"The under-used east end of Navy Pier would come to life with an elevated walkway and reflecting pool under a new chapter of the pier’s centennial makeover advanced Thursday.The Chicago Plan Commission also signed off on a seven-story, 240-room hotel, a seasonal...
Another Sliver of a Hotel Slotting Into the Gold Coast
"When students report for the first day of class Tuesday, they’ll find a spacious cafe, third-floor gym, black box theater, mirrored dance studio and more than a dozen additional classrooms in a bright new space at 1034 N. Wells St." Credit: Chicago Architecture...
Awesome Bird’s Eye View of Streeterville’s Marriot Autograph Hotel
"The new hotel is going up on a 60’x120′ sliver of land wedged between a condominium block and an old mansion converted into Les Nomades, one of the city’s best French restaurants. It’s the latest design by Koo and Associatesfor SMASHotels." Credit: Chicago...
Proposed Navy Pier Hotel Project Finds A Developer And An Architect
"Architect Koo, who is designing the new Navy Pier hotel, is no stranger to First Hospitality. She also worked on the Wit Hotel. Koo's design for the Navy Pier project consists of steel and glass bay windows and balconies that will complement the Pier's existing...
City Says Private Developer Will Build Hotel on Navy Pier
"Right now I think there's a perception in Chicago among many who know the pier, it's in their backyard, it's loved but maybe it's something they only visit when their family comes in town and wants to go to the pier. We want you to want to go to the pier and...
Ontario Street Tower Crane Makes its Smashing Debut
"Designed by Chicago firm Koo and Associates, the new Smash Hotel will feature 198 rooms over 22 stories. As you can see in the photos below, there are several sections of crane to be assembled, so expect it to get a bit taller in the coming days." Credit: Chicago...
Included in exhibit at A+D Gallery
In 2015, KOO participated in Chicago Interiors, the affiliate partner exhibition of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial. Credit: Columbia College Chicago October 23, 2015
New Design, Specs for Hampton Inn in Park West
"This current proposal has the hotel reduced to just ten stories, with 143 rooms and 75 parking spaces. This is not a renovation; the new hotel will replace the current building on the site. The architect is Koo Architecture+Design, and the developer is LVM Group."...
Steelers Visit Walter Payton College Prep
"As anyone who’s ridden the Brown Line between the Chicago Avenue and Sedgwick stops can attest, the funding was approved, and construction has begun. What’s visible now is mostly just a skeleton, but it’s a steel skeleton. And those are the best kind." Credit:...
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 construction…...
Upscale Baths
"Jackie Koo chimes in on the increased demand for luxury baths within hospitality design in her interview with Pamela Dittmer McKuen." Credit: Chicago Life Magazine May 2015
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." Credit: Crain's Chicago Business Micah Maidenberg December 3, 2014
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 theory as to building...
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