Illinois Center for

Broadcasting: Chicago Office

Build-Out

Client: Illinois Center for Broadcasting, Chicago (State Street)

Project: Interior Office Build-Out for the Chicago Campus

Design Features

• The State Street campus was one of three locations TKA designed for ICB in Illinois
• Achieve a fun, youthful, and eye-catching education/office space, as a flagship for the Chicago region
• Attract students interested in a forward thinking school and a high-visibility industry

Challenges

• Create an appealing space to the young population that inhabits the neighborhood, while keeping the project within budget
• Incorporate all program requirements in a small footprint, while designing educational spaces (classrooms, radio, and television studios) that are visible from the street

Key Achievements

• Use of vibrant colors: TKA highlighted the space with accents of cayenne and dark gray paints, plus melon-color acoustical wall covering for Internet and radio studios
• Use of natural light: TKA's design plan featured the existing high windows with ceiling soffits to allow for natural light into each individual space, while keeping ceilings at appropriate heights for each room
• Interactive spaces from the street: TKA planned the interior to create a television studio and sound studios visible and interactive from the street; TV monitors and speakers were installed along the unobstructed window lines to connect the inside students live with the people passing by on the sidewalk