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 University of Chicago and her Master of Architecture from the University of Illinois of Chicago.
Recent Posts
- Fourteen Remarkable Libraries in the Chicago Area
- City Council approves Thrive Exchange South
- LOT Polish Airlines Opening Chicago Lounge In 2024
- Rivers Casino Philadelphia Plans Boutique Luxury Hotel in Fishtown
- Colorful Metal Inspiration
- City outlines plans for 18th/Peoria site
- AIA Chicago Announces Recipient of 2023 Firm Award
- CDC approves TIF for Thrive Exchange
- #CNDA28 Winner: Koo LLC for the Altgeld Family Resource Center
- Thrive Exchange presented to Committee on Design
- theWit Column Designs Featured on Around Town with Ana Belaval on WGN News!
- Altgeld Family Resource Center
- Thrive Exchange selected as winner for South Shore Invest S/W RFP
- Women Architects Who Have Made Their Mark on Chicago
- 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!
- Taming Push Me Pull You: KOO’s Integrated Architectural and Interior Design Practice | NeoCon 2021
- OMA & KOO @ UIC
- Curio Collection’s 100th property opens on Chicago’s Navy Pier
- Design Conversations: Jackie Koo Takes Us Behind the Scenes at Navy Pier’s First Hotel
- KOO-designed SURGE esports arena gets the go-ahead for Chicago’s South Side
- What’s That Building? The Altgeld Family Resource Center
- A New Community Center for Chicago’s South Side
- KOO Completes Design of Sable at Navy Pier
- Sable Hotel opens on Navy Pier
- Rehabilitation & Revival: KOO Design Leads Chicago’s Public Housing Architectural Renaissance
- Chicago to Receive an E-Sports Arena, and Other News
- Column: 10 ways architecture may change Chicago in 2021, the Year of the Question Mark
- Column: Chicagoans of the Year in architecture: The team that helped revive old Cook County Hospital
- 2020 LANDMARKS ILLINOIS RICHARD H. DRIEHAUS FOUNDATION PRESERVATION AWARD FOR ADAPTIVE USE
- KOO selected for INVEST South/West Pre-Qualified List of Design Services Firms
- Beaux Arts Beauty
- Designer Spotlight!
- Column: An exclusive look at the reborn Cook County Hospital: Once facing the wrecking ball, the West Side landmark is about to reemerge, beautifully remade
- Offshore – Rooftop Bar at Navy Pier is a 2019 ALA Merit Winner
- Navy Pier Rooftop Venue Opening Spring 2019
- UIC Performing Arts Center WINNER – OMA/KOO
- UIC Center for the Arts Finalist Entries
- Transforming Chicago – Old Cook County Hospital
- Old Cook County Hospital – HyattPlace and HyattHouse On Track to Becoming the Next City Landmark
- Finalist – New Performing Arts Center at UIC
- Old Cook County Hospital Transformation – WGN News
- 4 Interior Design Lessons from Hospitality
- Chicago Artisan: Jackie Koo
- The B&D Interview: Jackie Koo
- Navy Pier Hotel Press
- Navy Pier Groundbreaking
- Interview: Jackie Koo
- KOO Interiors – Cook County Hospital Redevelopment
- 2018 CBC Merit Award Winner
- Construction on planned Navy Pier hotel to start next month
- First Hospitality Group, Inc. and Navy Pier announce Navy Pier Hotel to operate under Curio Collection by Hilton Brand
- First Hospitality Group to develop new Curio for Chicago’s Navy Pier
- Hotel EMC2 Supports Youth in STEM Education
- 30,000-square-foot rooftop restaurant and bar will crown new Navy Pier hotel
- Autograph Collection Hotels & SMASHotels Introduce Hotel EMC2
- Inside Hotel EMC2: Streeterville’s newly-opened ‘art and science’ themed hotel
- KOO’s Latest One-Of-A-Kind Design
- Quick Hits: Hotel EMC2 Opens in Chicago
- Hotel EMC2 Downtown Chicago Celebrates Opening