Gary Comer Youth Center, in Chicago, IL USA.
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| Client Gary Comer – who grew up in the surrounding Grand Crossing neighborhood before attaining business success as founder of Lands End – asked architect John Ronan to design a 2006 home for the South Side Drill Team that would be tough enough to protect its occupants from the difficult urban setting.A brick box would have been enough for Comer, but Ronan insisted that the building shouldn’t just protect. It needed to inspire the community in a way that a bunker-like building never could. Ronan created a bright box with varied cement board panels of reds, blues, and white to give the building a startling digital age presence on the street.Inside, each of center’s assembly spaces has visual access to other rooms – an internalized way of breaking the box once one is securely within it. An upstairs courtyard shelters a roof garden and an LED tower marks the building and communicates messages to drivers on the adjacent expressway. | |||
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