SCB is an architecture, interior design, and planning firm with a thoughtful design vision and a dynamic national imprint. In addition, Studio Gang is currently designing civic, cultural and educational projects across the Americas, including the new United States Embassy in Brazil, an expansion of the American Museum of Natural History in New York and a new campus for California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Known for innovative buildings that enhance the public space around them, Studio Gang has completed such award-winning Chicago projects as the Aqua Tower, Writers Theatre, Eleanor Boathouse, and the under-construction Vista Tower which, when complete, will be the third tallest in the city.
A Joint Venture between Studio Gang, SCB, Corgan, Milhouse, and STL, Studio ORD was formed to realize the City’s ambitions for a new Global Terminal and Global Concourse at O’Hare International Airport.įounded by American architect Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang is an architecture and urban design practice headquartered in Chicago and the lead designer on the O’Hare project. Culminating in a dramatic Overlook, the Mezzanine offers expansive views of the airfield beyond and of the neighborhood and gates below, helping passengers orient themselves and heightening the excitement of travel.Ī Chicago-based team led by MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang, Studio ORD is a true confluence of visionary design, unparalleled operational expertise, and proven ability to deliver in Chicago. A light-filled Mezzanine above the concourse houses ticketing and security for departing passengers. The roof is supported by Y-shaped columns spaced over 100 feet apart that distribute the structural load to maximize open circulation and ensure flexibility to accommodate change over the terminal’s lifespan. Surrounding the Oculus, a pleated roof of long-span steel trusses clad in wood maximizes natural daylight and energy efficiency. The plantings extends through the terminal’s three branches, framing boulevards of restaurants, shops, and retail that together evoke a lively Chicago street. Its exposed structure, interior streets, and bustling activity express our city’s trajectory as a center of movement, exchange, and growth.”īeneath the Oculus, a vibrant new neighborhood unfolds around an expansive Central Green that can support pop-up events, music, and informal gathering. Our design creates a new Chicago neighborhood that reflects the culture, traditions, and diversity of the city. “It embodies the city’s fundamental geographic asset: a place of convergence of paths of movement both natural and manmade. “Every aspect of the design is focused on creating a uniquely Chicago experience,” said Jeanne Gang, Founding Principal of Studio Gang and Lead Designer of Studio ORD. When seen from above, the building greets passengers with a easily recognizably Chicago icon: the city’s “Y symbol,” or Municipal Device, that represents the branching Chicago River. At the branches’ confluence, a dramatic Oculus welcomes visitors under a six-pointed glass skylight whose geometry references the Chicago flag. Like the confluence of the Chicago River, the design’s converging three branches create a central hub that establishes a vibrant new neighborhood in the heart of O’Hare’s campus.Ĭurving to increase efficiency, wayfinding, and connectivity, the tripartite form merges terminal and concourse into a single building. Studio ORD, a collaborative effort led by Studio Gang in partnership with Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB), Corgan, Milhouse Engineering and Construction, and STL Architects, presents a design for a new Global Terminal and Global Concourse that celebrates Chicago’s history as a city shaped by lines of movement and extends that legacy for the 21st century. Team is shortlisted by the City of Chicago to Design Global Terminal and ConcourseįOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-The City of Chicago unveiled the finalists an international competition to design the first global alliance terminal in the United States.
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