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Article: United States : Design firm selected for Midewin learning center.
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- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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Byline: sanjayV03
A design prepared by Chicago architecture firm Wheeler Kearns has been selected as the winning concept for a new Prairie Learning Center at the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie.
The Center will provide badly needed public access to this unique open space south of Chicago.
Wheeler Kearns has proposed an arrangement of rammed earth walls and energy conservation techniques to shape two separate, but integrated, open-air, visitor/education areas to be constructed at the Iron Bridge Trailhead and River Road Seedbeds at Midewin.
The project will be a model of sustainable structure and site design for outdoor recreation ...