There has been so much controversy around the destruction of the abandoned Prentice Women's Hospital. In 2007 the below and current Prentice Women's Hospital was built, have you been in either one as a patient? Or both? What was your experience?
Architects so concerned with the demolition signed a petition to not tear the building down. Jeanne Gang even created this adaptation to preserve it:
Even though the building wasn't made to have a tower built on top of it and it also doesn't fit the needs of Northwestern to be able to connect the floors to the buildings on each side as pointed out in this WBEZ article and this Sun-Times article just calling the building ugly and to "tear it down".
Perkins+Will has been selected to design the new Northwestern Biomedical Research Building, it will look more like this:
Lastly this video on the demolition of the building and Chicago architecture, The Absent Column from Nathan Eddy.
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