Business Wire, June 2019

Business Wire, June 2019

Corvias Partnership with Illinois Institute of Technology will Delivery 330 New Residential Beds Fall of 2020

Historic Mies Van der Rohe-designed Bailey Hall will Undergo Renovation

In partnership with Corvias, Dirk Denison Architects and Gilbane Building Company, Illinois Institute of Technology will renovate the historic Mies Van der Rohe-designed Bailey Hall to provide new living space for 330 freshmen and sophomores by Fall semester of 2020.

Corvias and the Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) announced today the renovation of Bailey Hall which will provide new living space for 330 freshmen and sophomores by Fall Semester of 2020, the scheduled completion time, as part of Illinois Institute of Technology’s student housing program. The partnership is comprised of Corvias for development and management, Dirk Denison Architects for design and Gilbane Building Company for construction.

“This partnership solves for modern, sustainable housing, providing a vibrant new living experience for our first and second year students while revitalizing this historic and prominent part of our campus,” says Bruce Watts, vice president for facilities and public safety at Illinois Tech.

Founder and CEO of Corvias, John Picerne added, “By engaging Dirk Denison as architect, we arrived at a solution that thinks of the students’ needs first, enveloped in preservation and celebration of the Mies design.” This partnership adds to the more than 30 public-private partnerships Corvias has in the United States.

“It is truly rare to have the chance to renovate a Mies building,” said Dirk Denison, an alumnus of Illinois Tech and a long-term faculty member of the College of Architecture. “We asked ourselves, how do we extend its legacy for today’s way of living?”

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