Reflecting on Chicago's Lakefront

The new Information Commons building on Loyola University's Lakeshore Campus is nearly complete. Scheduled to open this spring, it is a stunning visual complement to both the lakeshore and to the campus.
The building captures elements and the essence of the older architecture surrounding it, even as it presents ultramodern glass and steel walls.

The reflection of the sky and water plays off the lake side to the east. On the western side of the building, the older structures are reflected. Beautiful.



Just one possible problem, however. One of the construction workers said that the building "leaks like a sieve" and will be "a greenhouse in the summer."