Design Architect: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Associate Architect: Brininstool + Lynch
Landscape Architect: Site Design Group
General Contractor: Turner Construction
Structural Engineer: LERA Consulting Structural Engineers
MEP/FP Consultant: Primera
Facade Consultant: Thornton Tomasetti
Lighting Consultant: Tillotson Design Associates
Location: Chicago, IL
The David Rubenstein Forum is the University of Chicago’s conference center, built to hold events on campus instead of in downtown hotels. It stands at the south edge of the Midway Plaisance, where the campus has been gradually expanding toward Woodlawn. Many south-campus buildings face north toward the Midway, with their backs to the neighborhood. The forum was designed to face both ways, a reversal of the mid-century push to wall off the campus. Above a two-story base, the tower is solid zinc on the sides and glass opening north and south. The meeting rooms and lounges stacked inside have views of Rockefeller Chapel and downtown in one direction and Woodlawn in the other.
