Higher Education and PreK-12

An 18,200-square-foot single-story addition with a new entrance, multi-purpose room and kitchen, gymnasium, two classrooms, and a secure outdoor learning courtyard.

The existing 44,700-square-foot building received central air conditioning, and its gym was converted to three art classrooms. Site work added a bus drive and parking.

A 3,120-square-foot center developed with Professor Emeritus Jack Baker. Three tea rooms surround a traditional multi-purpose space.

Traditional tea and dry gardens complete the setting.

Built in 1936 as a WPA Art Deco school. A 20,000-square-foot addition adds classrooms for grades 3–5, a library-media center, cafeteria, and computer lab.

The existing 45,800-square-foot building was fully renovated and made accessible with new ramps and an elevator, and its original materials and systems were restored.

A four-story, 33,000-square-foot office building serving about 120 staff and the undergraduate students they assist, which also houses a publications distribution center.

The building anchors the new east campus entrance alongside the Hallene Gateway, Alice Campbell Alumni Center, and Spurlock Museum.

IGW led the architects, engineers, and consultants for a single-story visual arts addition with eight studios and a three-story performing arts addition.

The performing arts addition holds a 2,000-square-foot black box theater and a lobby shared by both wings.

IGW was associate architect with Perkins+Will Chicago for this 108,000-square-foot student union, which consolidates student and administrative services and adapts the original 1950s-era "educational village" concept by Ernest J. Kump & Associates.

A glass-walled entry pavilion marks the building, which is designed to achieve a minimum of LEED Silver certification.

A 41,000-square-foot single-story school for pre-K students ages 3–5, including special education, replacing a turn-of-the-century schoolhouse. Classrooms are organized in three four-classroom "villages", with room planned for two more.

The school connects to Prairie Elementary through a 13,400-square-foot addition and features daylighting, ground-source heating and cooling, and a canopied bus drop-off.

Expansion and renovation of a 1950s junior high building following a successful referendum. The 50,000-square-foot addition holds the main entrance, offices, cafetorium, music, art, industrial arts, and family and consumer sciences classrooms.

The 144,000-square-foot building was fully renovated, phased over two years so the school stayed occupied throughout.