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AIA Chicago 2007 Awards
Filed Under architecture
The State of Illinois Emergency Operations Center received AIA Chicago’s 2007 Divine Detail Honor Award. The exterior copper rain screen on the new State Emergency Operations Center is a feature of the layered design approach which facilitated the design and construction of this high-security 50,000 sf facility on an aggressive 19-month schedule.
This building uses smart combination between materials and design elements, such as the copper rain screen, the design of the SEOC reinvents the tectonic character and expression of emergency facilities in distinctly contemporary terms. Conceived to cast a formal elegance and lightness that belies the building’s high security standards, the State Emergency Operations Center demonstrates that it is possible, economically feasible, and even desirable not just bunker-like design, the great design was set for high-security facilities. Source: architectmagazine.com
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