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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...
Jackie Koo Adds Ballsy Cantilever to Boystown’s Out Hotel
"Architect Jackie Koo of Koo & Associates has reacted decisively to NIMBY quarrels with her design for a 10-story "Out Hotel" (at one point 12 stories) on the 3300 Block of North Halsted. The queer-friendlyboutique hotel project, led by Ian Reisner of Parkview...
Koo and Associates Ltd. Designing Chicago’s First Gay Boutique Hotel
"The Out Chicago, the city's first gay boutique hotel. Parkview Developers has proposed a 100-room property in the Boystown neighborhood that calls for a fully enclosed glass courtyard for events, restaurant, retail space, and gym and spa facilities." Credit: Contract...
Koo & Associates Outs the Out Hotel at Halsted & Roscoe
"The 'gay boutique' Out Hotel, already established in NYC, will resolve itself as a ten-story glass building bordering the Sidetrack club. The development cleaves closely to the NYC design, with an enclosed atrium, full spa and gym, rooftop bar, and restaurant and...
The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Architectural Excellence in Community Design, Second Place
"Koo’s infill buildings reflect the classic features of the surrounding neighborhood, while structures adjacent to the proposed new Mt. Sinai Ambulatory Care Center by Pappageorge Haymes reflect the more modern style of the planned medical center expansions. The Park...
99% Invisible, Episode 58
"But even if you know nothing about the history, everyone in the area knows this hotel. Because it’s purple. Really, really purple. Gwen Macsai grew up nearby and she always thought it was really, really ugly. Lots of people did. To be fair, lots of people...
KOO to the Rescue
"Though preliminary, Koo’s plans show a softer side of the storied hotel. The hotel structure will remain, she said, although it is a question of degree. One route would be strict historic preservation, while another might be to remove and repurpose some of the purple...
Jackie Koo’s Favorite Things
"With the zig-zaggety lightning streak she carved into the 27-story glass facade of the Wit hotel, architect Jackie Koo, of Koo and Associates, injected high voltage energy onto State Street. Not bad for a Plato-loving former philosophy student who changed her path....
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