function loadbuildingtable (commandname) { switch (commandname) { case "none": popbuildtable ('
Please select a building from the map above.
', "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); break; case "Cummings": popbuildtable ("The Cummings Pavilion", "The Cummings Research Laboratories", "/storage/archexplore/images/Cummings Sepia Sm.jpg", "", "1956-1957", "1957-1958", "The Architects Collaborative
Walter Gropius", "Loebl, Schlossman, and Bennett
Richard M. Bennett", "Michael Reese Hospital Planning Staff", "Gropius\'s last known design to be rendered in primarily steel and glass, the Cummings Pavilion continues a campus vocabulary developed for an early scheme of the Serum Center. The enameled steel facade, with tubular steel mullions and clear lites in steel sash, is impressive in its delicacy. The building\'s rear volume is executed in the familiar Reese campus buff brick."); break; case "Serum": popbuildtable ("The Serum Center", "The Michael Reese Research Foundation", "/storage/archexplore/images/Serum 3 Sepia Sm.jpg", "", "1948-1953", "1953-1956", "The Architects Collaborative
Walter Gropius
Norman Fletcher
Jean Fletcher", "A Epstein and Sons", "Michael Reese Hospital Planning Staff", "Well known to many Chicagoans as one of the most visible structures on the Reese campus, the Serum Center building\'s fine pedigree has almost never been discussed. Sharing many traits in common with Gropius\'s famous Graduate Student Center at Harvard University (1950), the Serum Center offers a fascinating point of investigation into this rare and unusual transitional period of Gropius\'s early American career. After many years of planning, the building was finally completed in early 1956."); break; case "Laundry": popbuildtable ("The Laundry Building", "", "/storage/archexplore/images/Laundry 2 Sepia Sm.jpg", "", "1946-1948", "1948-1949", "Walter Gropius", "Michael Reese Hospital Planning Staff
John T. Black
Reginald Isaacs
", "", "The first building executed with Walter Gropius at Michael Reese Hospital features a sophisticated design that belies its supporting role as the hospital\'s primary laundry. Symmetrical in nature, the building features buff brick in Flemish bond, exposed concrete, and a delicately proportioned steel and glass curtain wall with modulated rhythms."); break; case "Power": popbuildtable ("The Power Plant", "Michael Reese Service League Power Plant", "/storage/archexplore/images/Power Plant Sepia Sm.jpg", "", "1950-1952","1952-1953", "The Architects Collaborative (TAC)
Walter Gropius", "Friedman, Alschuler, and Sincere", "Michael Reese Hospital Planning Staff", "The visually striking Power Plant is a powerful and well-loved landmark on Chicago\'s South Lakefront. Constructed in an area that was exclusively industrial at the time, the plant now seems a curious but pleasant anomaly. The local architects were the same as those who worked with Mies van der Rohe on the highly successful Illinois Institute of Technology power plant, reflecting Gropius and the Planning Staff\'s lasting admiration for Mies\'s work and the strong desire that the two major area campuses be complementary."); break; case "Kaplan": popbuildtable ("The Kaplan Pavilion", "Private Pavilion and Professional Services Building", "/storage/archexplore/images/Kaplan Window Sepia Sm.jpg", "", "1949-1953", "1953-1955", "The Architects Collaborative (TAC)
Walter Gropius
Norman Fletcher
Jean Fletcher", "Loebl, Schlossman, and Bennett
Richard M. Bennett
", "Michael Reese Hospital Planning Staff
Reginald Isaacs", "Conceived as the new primary hospital building at Michael Reese Hospital, the Private Pavilion is a highlight of Gropius\'s early American period, successfully merging his earlier Bauhaus architectural principles with climate-driven design and a unique aesthetic appropriate to its Lake Michigan setting. Working with noted Chicago architect Richard M. Bennett, the building\'s mostly glass southern facade features projecting sunshades similar to the earlier Singer pavilion, but is organized in bands of precisely articulated steel windows that recall earlier Bauhaus precedents."); break; case "Singer": popbuildtable ("The Singer Building", "", "/storage/archexplore/images/Singer Sepia Sm.jpg", "", "1946-1948", "1948-1950", "Walter Gropius", "Loebl, Schlossman, and Bennett
Norman Schlossman
Richard M. Bennett
", "Michael Reese Hospital Planning Staff
Reginald Isaacs", "The Singer Pavilion is the result of years of planning effort on behalf of the design team and hospital staff. As the first actual patient building to be erected, it set the tone for much of the campus development to come. Gropius was particularly interested in the environmental siting of the building and climatic response, as well as in a residential and humane character for the building. The structure featured numerous advances for its day, and won an AIA award in 1951."); break; case "Friend": popbuildtable ("The Friend Convalescent Home", "Friend Pavilion", "/storage/archexplore/images/Friend Sepia Sm.jpg", "", "1953-1954", "1954-1957", "The Architects Collaborative (TAC)
Walter Gropius
Norman Fletcher
Jean Fletcher", "Loebl, Schlossman, and Bennett", "Michael Reese Hospital Planning Staff", "Reflective of the TAC concept that a building\'s complexity should mirror its purpose, the Convalescent home is a direct and handsome essay in simplicity and tranquility. A small outbuilding in the south area of the campus, the structure is designed with utmost care and attention to detail. A playful landscape of rolling hills supplements the Home\'s expansive windows and natural ventilation, all conceived for the purposes of peaceful healing."); break; case "Accelerator": popbuildtable ("The Linear Accelerator", "Radiation Oncology Wing", "/storage/archexplore/images/Accelerator Sepia Sm.jpg", "", "1951-1953, 1958-1959", "1953, 1960, 1967", "The Architects Collaborative (TAC)
Walter Gropius
Norman Fletcher
Jean Fletcher", "Loebl, Schlossman, and Bennett", "Michael Reese Hospital Planning Staff", "The linear accelerator building, which had a second-story addition in 1960 and small horizontal expansion in 1967, is an unusual structure built for an unusual purpose. The building, which housed the first linear accelerator in any US hospital, features an articulated steel and glass second story, set atop a brick and concrete base. Of particular note is the unusual steel construction vocabulary, and trademark TAC color scheme."); break; case "Parking": popbuildtable ("Michael Reese Parking Structure", "", "", "", "1979", "1981", "Loebl, Schlossman, and Hackl", "Conrad Associates East", "", "Original campus plans called for only street parking. Increased patronage by automobile caused the construction of the parking garage, which appears even more at odds with its environment by departing from most earlier campus motifs."); break; case "Florsheim": popbuildtable ("Florsheim Interns\' Residence", "Florsheim Professional Building", "/storage/archexplore/images/Florsheim Sepia Sm.jpg", "", "1958-1959", "1960", "", "Loebl, Schlossman, and Bennett
Richard M. Bennett", "", "The Florsheim Interns\' Residence was a modern addition to the nurses\' home. Typical of Dick Bennett\'s design from this period, it features unadorned walls with punched openings, an entry area with full-height curtain wall, and a copper-clad canopy. It was converted for private offices by Fitch/Larocca Architects, who added the northernmost bay."); break; case "NursesNorth": popbuildtable ("Nurses\' Residence, North Wing", "", "/storage/archexplore/images/nurses north detail sepia sm.jpg", "", "1929", "1931", "", "Schmidt, Garden, and Erikson", "", "This addition to the existing Nurses\' Home (to the south), by the same firm, attempts to match the details and design of the older building. However, certain aspects of ornament were updated. It features multicolored brick in English Bond and elegant limestone detailing."); break; case "NursesWest": popbuildtable ("Nurses\' Residence, West Wing", "", "/storage/archexplore/images/nurses west stair sepia sm.jpg", "", "1944", "1945", "", "Schmidt, Garden, and Erikson", "", "Yet another addition to the growing Reese Nurses\' Home and School of Nursing, this post-WWII addition complements the firm\'s earlier structures. It does feature, however, elegant and rich Art Moderne detailing, as can be seen in the original stair elevation drawing shown here. This was a departure from the classical motifs of the earlier works, and is reflected in exterior elevations as well."); break; case "Nurses": popbuildtable ("Nurses\' Residence, Original Wing", "Nurses\' Residence and School of Nursing", "/storage/archexplore/images/nurses sepia sm.jpg", "", "1922-1923", "1924", "", "Schmidt, Garden, and Martin", "", "Befitting its prestige and central role of the institution, The Michael Reese Nurses\' Home was an opulent structure. The classically styled building incorporates grand arches opening into a high-ceilinged first floor with grand public spaces. Limestone accents complement a rich, multi-toned brick laid in English Bond. Interior spaces are adorned with coffered ceilings and plaster moldings."); break; case "Mandel": popbuildtable ("Mandel Clinic", "Babette and Emanuel Mandel Clinic", "/storage/archexplore/images/mandel sepia sm.jpg", "", "", "1927, 1945", "", "Alfred S. Alschuler and Associates", "", "Typical of noted Chicago architect Alfred Alschuler\'s work, the Mandel Clinic is executed in a handsome but straightforward Classical style. Arched windows complement the Nurse\'s Home to the north. An unsympathetic addition by the same firm was added to the top of the structure in 1945, reflecting changing architectural tastes of the day, but doing no particular service to the older building."); break; case "ER": popbuildtable ("Emergency Admissions Building", "Mandel Clinic Emergency Room", "/storage/archexplore/images/ER sepia sm.jpg", "", "1962", "1963, 1977", "", "Skidmore, Owings and Merrill /
John Macsai and Associates", "", "The Emergency Room was added to the Mandel clinic in 1962, done in a steel-and-glass, Miesian style, typical of SOM\'s work at the time. In 1977, John Macsai, formerly of SOM, was hired to renovate the building. Macsai\'s renovation completely changed the exterior, cladding the steel frame with limestone panels, adding a large metal canopy and curving protective walls. The building standing today is a fine example of Macsai\'s mature style, a unique approach to Modernism after the Miesian era."); break; case "Bensinger": popbuildtable ("Bensinger Building", "Bensinger General Services Building", "/storage/archexplore/images/bensinger sepia sm.jpg", "", "1963", "1965", "", "Loebl, Schlossman, and Bennett", "", "The Bensinger building is built adjacent to John T. Black and Walter Gropius\'s Laundry Building, and included an expansion of that facility. The main new volume of the Bensinger picks up on the materiality of the Laundry Building, but interprets it anew, while the section immediately adjacent is skillfully related to its elder, matching brickwork, materials, and curtainwall with great respect. The construction of the Bensinger Building is much larger than it appears on the surface, as the building includes a vast array of workshops and facilities-related spaces, hidden below a grade-level parking deck."); break; case "MeyerMemorial": popbuildtable ("Meyer Memorial Building", "", "", "", "", "1931", "", "Schmidt, Garden, and Erikson", "", "The Meyer Memorial is a small, handsome building added to the north side of the Main Michael Reese hospital. Executed in light-toned brick, the cube-like volume is elegant and direct, helping to form the street wall along Ellis Avenue."); break; case "Main": popbuildtable ("Main Michael Reese", "Former Main Michael Reese Hospital", "/storage/archexplore/images/Main Sepia Sm.jpg", "", "", "1905", "", "Schmidt, Garden, and Martin", "", "Considered a triumph of Prairie School design, Schmidt, Garden, and Martin\'s building originally served as Michael Reese\'s primary hospital. The building replaced an earlier structure on the same site, which dated from the 1880s. This structure is the only building at Michael Reese Hospital currently being considered for preservation."); break; case "Tumor": popbuildtable ("Tumor Clinic", "Max Strauss Tumor Clinic", "/storage/archexplore/images/Tumor Sepia Sm.jpg", "", "1938", "1939", "", "Schmidt, Garden, and Erikson", "", "The Tumor Clinic was built to house Michael Reese\'s pioneering and productive research in tumors and cancer growth. The building is an elegant essay in early Chicago modernism, virtually unornamented and featuring strong volumes in dark brick. The style of the structure could be considered transitional, from Art Moderne to International Style."); break; case "FirstAid": popbuildtable ("First Aid Building", "", "/storage/archexplore/images/FirstAid Sepia Sm.jpg", "", "1941", "1941", "", "Schmidt, Garden, and Erikson", "", "Built in the forecourt area of the Tumor Clinic, the small First Aid building is another early example of Modernist design in a Chicago institutional setting. Prior to the 1940s, in Chicago most progressive Modern design was reserved for residences and some commercial buildings. The First Aid building includes a curving eastern wall, inset windows with limestone frames and a projecting limestone shading device, and a handsome gateway to the Tumor Clinic."); break; case "Laz": popbuildtable ("Laz Chapman Pathology Institute", "", "", "", "1963-1964", "1965", "", "Loebl, Schlossman, and Bennett", "", "The Laz Chapman Pathology Institute was erected along with the larger Dreyfus Labs to the south. The building is a low, one-story pavilion in dark brown brick, set on a large raised plaza. The unique color and plaza give the small structure a sense of importance amidst the larger structures."); break; case "FlorLib": popbuildtable ("Florsheim Library", "", "/storage/archexplore/images/FlorLib sepia sm.jpg", "", "1935", "1937", "", "Schmidt, Garden, and Erikson", "", "At one time one of the largest hospital libraries in the nation, the Florsheim Library was built adjacent to the Michael Reese Research Institute to aid medical researchers. The structure is executed in a noble, refined Art Moderne style. Today the edifice is in fine condition, but it is hardly visible due to the erection of the Blum Pavilion\'s large canopy in front of the main entrance."); break; case "Dreyfus": popbuildtable ("Dreyfus Research Laboratories", "", "/storage/archexplore/images/dreyfus sepia sm.jpg", "", "1963-1964", "1965", "", "Loebl, Schlossman, and Bennett", "", "The Dreyfus Laboratories were built next to the Cummings Pavilion, which was designed by Walter Gropius with Dreyfus\'s architects, LSB. Early plans for the Cummings Pavilion showed a near-duplicate building in the location that ultimately was used for the Dreyfus building. Responding to the rapidly increasing space requirements for research, the Dreyfus building that was built is far larger than the earlier Cummings Pavilion."); break; case "Klein": popbuildtable ("Klein - Kuntstader Pavilion", "Klein Women\'s Hospital / Kundstader Children\'s Hospital", "/storage/archexplore/images/klein sepia sm.jpg", "", "1967", "1971", "", "Loebl, Schlossman, Bennett, and Dart
Edward Dart", "", "Reflective of Ed Dart\'s stripped down style, the Klein - Kuntstader is the tallest structure at Michael Reese. A large, projecting bay looms over 29th Street, while the long east- and west-facing walls are comprised of simple grids of bay-width openings. Ed Dart was a designer well known in Chicago for his churches and residential architecture, but this is one of his largest and tallest designs."); break; case "Meyer": popbuildtable ("Meyer House", "", "/storage/archexplore/images/meyer sepia sm.jpg", "", "1925", "1927", "", "Schmidt, Garden, and Erikson", "", "Meyer House was a phenomenon of the Roaring \'20s, a lavish hospital with private rooms large enough to house an inpatient, family members, and even at times secretaries from the office. With views of Lake Michigan, staying in Meyer House was a prestigious affair usually reserved for Chicago\'s elite, with hotel-like services and great attentiveness to personal comfort. Meyer House also included the well-loved limestone and brick gateway bridge that spans 29th Street, connecting Main Michael Reese to Meyer House."); break; case "Blum": popbuildtable ("Meyer House", "", "/storage/archexplore/images/blum sepia sm.jpg", "", "1979", "1983", "", "Loebl, Schlossman, and Hackl", "", "A strange hybrid between a bridge and a medical office building, the Blum Pavilion was erected over parts of 29th Place and South Ellis Avenue. The structure probably was of much utility for the hospital, since it connected several buildings and alleviated the need to go outdoors, but for the street below and adjacent buildings, the insertion has not been complementary."); break; case "KaplanSurgical": popbuildtable ("Kaplan Surgical Wing", "Jennie M. Kaplan Surgical Wing", "/storage/archexplore/images/kaplansurgical sepia sm.jpg", "", "1961", "1963", "", "Loebl, Schlossman, and Bennett", "", "The Kaplan Pavilion, designed by Walter Gropius and Loebl, Schlossman, and Bennett, anticipated a future expansion for surgical purposes. The Kaplan Surgical Wing fits nicely into this space and is complementary to the Kaplan Pavilion, such that many do not notice the transition. However, at this time it remains unclear if Walter Gropius was aware of the actual design for this structure, and if he had any input into its execution."); break; case "Baum": popbuildtable ("Baumgarten Pavilion", "", "/storage/archexplore/images/baum sepia sm.jpg", "", "1960", "1963", "", "Loebl, Schlossman, and Bennett", "", "The Baumgarten Pavilion is a beautiful design, crafted to compliment the earlier works of the Kaplan and Singer Pavilions, which LSB worked on with Walter Gropius. Many of the earlier motifs are carried forward, but with some new materials, such as the aluminum window system, and architectural treatments. The side of the hospital facing Pfaelzer Park offers ribbon windows, while the other elevations are quite distinct. Aluminum sunshades relate back to the earlier campus buildings built primarily to house patient rooms. The Baumgarten Pavilion was built to 6 stories, but like the Kaplan Pavilion before it, was intended to reach 12 stories at full build-out."); break; case "Wexler": popbuildtable ("Wexler Pavilion", "Simon Wexler Psychiatric Pavilion", "/storage/archexplore/images/wexler sepia sm.jpg", "", "1960", "1963", "", "Ezra Gordon-Jack M. Levin Associates", "", "A small, folly-like addition to the Singer Pavilion, the round Wexler Pavilion always catches the eye of its viewer. The round form was derived from the needs of privacy and light for clinical visitation rooms, but it also sets the form apart positively from the core Gropius-designed setting in which it sits. The structure is highly sensitive to its environment, with similar materials palette, color, and attention to detail."); break; case "Outbuilding": popbuildtable ("Outbuilding", "", "", "", "", "c. 1983", "", "Unknown", "", "A small, insensitive addition to the campus, this small mechanical outbuilding offers very little architecturally and disrupts the flow between Rothschild Park and Pfaelzer Park."); break; case "Reg": popbuildtable ("Regenstein - Seigel Pavilion", "Regenstein Pavilion / Seigel Pavilion", "/storage/archexplore/images/reg sepia sm.jpg", "", "", "1970", "", "Unknown", "", "While distinct from the rest of the campus, the Siegel-Regenstein Pavilion succeeds through its attentive detail and imagination. Clad in smooth brown brick and bush-hammered concrete, the Brutalist structure is connected to the upper level of the campus via a travertine-lined bridge."); break; case "Prairie": popbuildtable ("Prairie Shores Apartments", "", "", "", "1955-1956", "1957-1963", "", "Loebl, Schlossman, and Bennett", "", "These five, handsome residential towers by Dick Bennett feature glazed brick and crisp steel curtain walls. Each tower is distinguished by a different color applied to its ventilation louvers. The site planning for the towers was done by Walter Gropius with Hideo Sasaki, and Sasaki completed the landscape plan for the buildings. These towers are not a part of the Michael Reese 2016 Olympic Village proposal, and are thus safe from demolition for the meantime."); break; } }