Community-supported projects relieve overcrowding, modernize science department, and preserve style of 94-year-old high school Visitors to Glenbard West High School’s classroom addition might be surprised at something they see outside: sitting amid the self-sustaining vegetation on one rooftop garden is a metal construction beam. Closer inspection reveals teacher and student signatures on that beam. Typically, […]
Public Works/Maintenance Facility Design Essentials – Part 3 (One Roof to Shelter Them All)
Heated indoor storage makes sense financially and functionally. Besides employees, one of public works/campus maintenance providers’ most valuable assets is its fleet of vehicles. We understand the importance of treating employees well, but what about those vehicles? Previous posts in this series offer strategies for saving costs without sacrificing design, and for screening resources from […]
College of DuPage Homeland Security Training Center Achieves LEED Certification from US Green Building Council
Airtightness, optimized energy performance prove critical in first responder training facility’s sustainable accomplishment [Glen Ellyn, IL] – The College of DuPage’s Homeland Security Training Center (HTC) has several spaces that you are unlikely to encounter at any other college or university. One of them is an interior firing range. Even though law enforcement personnel use […]
College of Lake County Dedicates Café Addition, Renovated and Expanded Student Life Spaces
Student-focused spaces bring community feel to heart of college campus [Grayslake, IL] – For years, a rarely used student communal space resembling a sunken living room sat at the center of College of Lake County’s (CLC) main campus. Today, that same space is reimagined as a light-filled Student Commons connected to a new café, Welcome […]
La Grange Stone Avenue Train Station Restoration Wins Driehaus Preservation Award
Rehabilitation of 115-year-old community icon honored with Landmarks Illinois’ Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award [La Grange, IL] – Each year, Landmarks Illinois sets out to celebrate Illinois’ most outstanding historic preservation projects with the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Award. This year, the nonprofit organization faced the difficult task of choosing 9 winners from 39 […]
LaSalle-Peru High School Model Classroom Improves Engagement, Interaction, and Concentration
Students and educators agree: it’s time to upgrade the cramped, stuffy, and dated classrooms in their 90-year-old school. “There’s no way I could work in this building,” said a LaSalle-Peru High School (LPHS) visitor at the start of this school year. “It’s way too hot.” No air conditioning is just one of many signs of […]
Mundelein High School Expansion Emphasizes STEM Education and Workforce Skills
Flexible spaces support active learning, display career-based programs, promote community and business partnerships [Mundelein, IL] – Mundelein High School’s (MHS) science labs hadn’t been updated since the school was built in 1961. That’s 55 years. Classes were cramped. Equipment and furniture were outdated. So two years ago, Mundelein High School District 120 was thrilled when […]
In Memory: Alan F. Bombick, AIA (1955 – 2016)
Alan F. Bombick, principal and urban designer at Legat Architects, passed away at age 61 This week, Legat Architects mourns the tremendous loss of Alan F. Bombick, a highly influential figure in urban design, a maverick in the architecture/engineering/construction industry, and a beloved husband, father, grandfather, and friend. We honor Alan’s vast contributions to the […]
