Northwestern University Medical Center Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Building
Chicago, USA
Northwestern University commissioned Davis Brody Bond Aedas to design a new research building on the downtown Chicago campus of its renowned medical school. The new building contains three major research centers: the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Center for Genetic Medicine and the Institute for Bioengineering and Nanoscience in Advanced Medicine.
The facility includes twelve floors that accommodate state-of-the-art biomedical research laboratories, faculty offices and support spaces for the fields of genetics and molecular medicine, cancer, neuroscience and biomedical engineering. The ground floor includes classrooms, auditoriums, informal lounge space and a sky-lit campus center for special functions.
The Lurie Medical Research Center includes a 70,000 sq. ft. vivarium housed on two sub-floors, a clean and dirty corridors/system, housing/procedure suites, isolation/quarantine suites, survival operating room suites, injection suites, and all required staff and animal support areas.
Developed on the former site of the Passavant Hospital, a significant challenge of the project was the development of a design solution sensitive to the surrounding urban character of the medical school campus, yet an appropriate and innovative statement for the future of the school.
Awards
- McGraw-Hill Construction / Midwest Construction’s Best of 2005 Award of Merit: Health Care/Medical Research (Large)
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