Preservationists trying to save the former Prentice Women's Hospital have a new tactic: the bottom line. They say re-using the building will generate more revenue and jobs.
The Commission on Chicago Landmarks voted to grant preliminary landmark status to the former Prentice Hospital – then decided hours later to rescind the designation.
Lee Bey says a proposed plan by a New York Times architecture critic to save the shuttered Prentice hospital falls flat as an architectural concept — but could have real unintended merit.
Architect Jeanne Gang thinks the Prentice Women’s Hospital debate could be solved through an architectural compromise, but Northwestern University says it won’t work
Northwestern University has offered to swap Bertrand Goldberg's 1975 Prentice Women's Hospital with a building "the aesthetics of such that people are going to marvel at it."
More than 60 architects, educators and historic preservationists are betting their famous names might help prevent demolition of the old Prentice Women’s Hospital.
