Wintrust Arena Chicago Building
Wintrust Arena Building Chicago, Illinois Stadium Architecture Photos
Wintrust Arena Chicago Building
DePaul University Basketball Stadium, Illinois, USA ? design by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
Jun 23, 2018
Wintrust Arena Chicago Building
Design: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Wintrust Arena Chicago Building
This project adds a mid-size venue that doubles as an arena for DePaul University basketball to Wintrust Arena, the country?s largest convention center.
The new event center is part of a redevelopment plan to transform the surrounding neighborhood into a vibrant entertainment district with new dining and entertainment venues, hotels and streetscapes. The building?s design is contemporary, but it grows from a study of the adjacent neighborhoods.
Located at the boundary of the pedestrian-scaled Prairie District and the larger scale of the convention center campus, the event center creates a transition between the two. The event center?s main design feature is an inventive roof that swells upward over the arena seating, recalling some of Chicago?s great gathering spaces like Adler and Sullivan?s Auditorium Theater and the Navy Pier Grand Ballroom.
With this elegant curving standing-seam metal roof and lightweight glass walls, the building follows in the Chicago tradition of the lyrical structure, or engineering raised to the level of art. The smooth, arching canopy has long curving skylights to let in natural light during the day and p...
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