| Sumario: | No matter how much Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's design for the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois exemplifies the highest and purest Modernism, 50 years after its construction, the steel-and-concrete structures with brick-and-glass curtain walls look very quiet, almost lifeless. The McCormick Tribune Campus Center has altered the gestalt in one brash, bold blow. Designed by Rem Koolhaas and his Rotterdam-based Office of Metropolitan Architecture in association with the venerable Chicago firm of Holabird and Root, the exterior form looks almost like a one-story Miesian glass rectangle squeezed under and deformed by a 530-foot-long stainless-steel tube that stretches the length of its roof.
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