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Caption: Book - 100 Years of Campus Architecture (Allen Weller)
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. CHICAGO CIRCLE CAMPUS .J \fensity Hall With the opening of the Chicago Circle campus in February, 1965, a new era began in the history of the University of Illinois. Here, in the heart of a great city and close to its principal business district, was constructed an urban educational center. Designed by Walter A. Netsch of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, the new campus broke with many traditions of collegiate architecture. Chicago Circle consists of an academic core of 40 acres; development is ultimately planned for 106 acres. Because of the restricted site, academic structures occupy an unusually large portion of the available space. University Halt, a 28-story complex of administrative and academic offices and of seminar and conference rooms, expresses the scarcity of urban space by the unusual way the upper stories expand above a stilted base*
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