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Hub Group Oak Brook Corporate Headquarters Exterior Building Photography

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This next post features images from our Hub Group Oak Brook corporate headquarters exterior building photography shoot. The commercial property’s headquarters building architecture is the area’s newest development. The 4-story, 130,000 square foot office building is ultra eye-catching with a new, modern and stunning all glass construction featuring an edge-to-edge, glass curtain-wall architectural design.

This is the first property and Phase I of a two office development plan for the Hub Group’s company expansion. Upon completion of both Phase I & II the total planned expansion of the headquarter facility will cover a 29-acre site located in Oak Brook’s I-88 and I-294 Tech Corridor near York Road and Cermak / 22nd Street. Property Development by Morgan / Harbour Construction, LLC and, Architect and Interior Design by the architectural firm Solomon Cordwell Buenz. The building received LEED Gold certification from the USGBC. The Oak Brook development complex features underground parking, natural habitat landscaping, ponds and walking trails. Phase II of the corporate headquarters complex, which began summer of 2019, includes building 2, also a 4-story 130,000 square foot office building. Upon construction completion, the two buildings will be connected via an under-course walkway.

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The Hub Group Oak Brook corporate headquarters exterior building photography property shoot focused on creative and architectural angles of the company’s attractive corporate office glass building and the architect’s architectural design. Capturing photography in a variety of exterior images, photographic angles and vantage points of the commercial property, for each of our architectural photo shoots, we take into consideration the architect’s favorite angles, combining our lighting and photographic eye, to capture the best property photography compositions of the subject.

As both an architectural exterior and interior corporate and commercial photographer in Chicago team, we have connected with both architects, designers, and construction contractors for interior and exterior building photography of several properties around the Nation. Working with a variety of commercial glazing glass construction and contractor specifically, our growing list of exterior building photography projects have included education, government, healthcare, hotel, hospitality construction, multifamily, residential high-rise, skyscrapers, and more, in Chicago, the Midwest, and Nationwide. For this construction client’s list of recently built buildings, our project included 14 properties in downtown Chicago and in the Chicagoland suburbs. With our distinctive eye for property lighting and a focus on our client’s architectural needs, our primary emphasis was to highlight the glass, modern curtain wall, horizontal louvers & cladding, and commercial glazing utilized by the contracting company creating photos to be used as marketing examples.

Inside the Hub Group building corporate headquarters in Oak Brook, employees enjoy a modern, indoor office design with the floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall capitalizing on natural light. The building’s interior design incorporates an open office floor plan. The Solomon Cordwell Buenz interior design team consistently reinforced the Hub Group’s strong brand identity by incorporating Hub’s ubiquitous green shipping containers. In 2014, the new office headquarters was named among Chicago’s “Coolest Offices” by Crain’s Chicago Business. Hub Group’s new headquarters is a space that speaks to the company’s modern, forward-thinking goals while remaining true to the community-oriented culture that has made it a leader in the transportation industry.

Hub Group Oak Brook
2000 Clearwater Dr, Oak Brook, IL 60523
www.hubgroup.com

General Contractor, Design + Construction: Morgan / Harbour Construction, LLC
Architect + Interior Design: Solomon Cordwell Buenz
Contractors: AT Mechanical, Connelly Electric, Harmon, Cyclone Energy Group, EDE Corporation
LEED USGBC Gold Certified Building
Hub Group named among Chicago’s “Coolest Offices” by Crain’s Chicago Business
Nominee at NAIOP Chicago Annual Awards for Excellence for Office Development of the Year

The Hub Group provides world-class, supply chain solutions and is a provider who offers multi-modal transportation services throughout North America. Supply Chain, drayage, logistics, intermodal, trucking and truckload solutions for both domestic and international freight providing the industry’s premier, customer-centric supply chain solutions. Originally located in Downers Grove, the Hub Group’s new mid-rise, glass modern corporate office building relocated employees to Oak Brook in 2014. Oak Brook is one of Chicago’s largest corporate development areas in Chicagoland. The Oak Brook suburb where Hub’s corporate commercial office headquarters real estate location now resides provides for Hub Group a great centrally located, Class A office facility, located within in the Chicago suburban metro area.

Contact MILLER+MILLER Architectural Photography to discuss your upcoming photo project. Traveling Nationwide, construction, real estate investment, and architectural design building clients hire us to document a portfolio of buildings, heading out after new construction or renovation completion. From Oak Brook, the Chicago’s suburbs, and downtown Chicago to traveling the Midwest and beyond to New York, Portland, Phoenix, and more Metro locations Nationwide shooting photography for our client’s entire portfolio. For additional examples of interior photography, modern executive corporate and commercial building developments, click the images below to view our Portfolio sections.

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Navy Pier Wave Wall’s Urban Design & Structures Photography

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MILLER+MILLER Architectural Photography photographs the Navy Pier Wave Wall and Urban Design & Structures Photography showcasing the urban design materials, systems infrastructure and architecture design of the recently redesigned, downtown Chicago popular tourist attraction. Our photography focused on capturing the Navy Pier wave stair wall’s modern design which utilizes our client’s application of commercial and industrial paint coatings finishes.

Navy Pier’s dynamic lakefront location has been a part of Chicago’s history since 1916. As Chicago urban design and architectural photographers, we appreciate the benefit of often learning early about finishing of construction, photographing just built skyscrapers, buildings, new construction, and unique architect projects annually; such as quoting photos of Chicago’s newest Navy Pier “Wave Stair Wall” right after completion.

Our client’s marketing contact inquired to us about her company’s infrastructure construction marketing portfolio photo needs and photography the company’s latest urban design architectural project at Chicago Navy Pier. Looking for Chicago photographer to photograph several angles and appearances of the Urban Design & Structures featuring the company’s architectural and industrial coatings for the wood & steel architectural materials around the finished site. The architect designed and client’s finishing coatings are visible within the wave stair wall, railings and benches around the staircase of the pier, providing a premier coating for high performance architectural and industrial applications using a Fluoronar finish. Photography included a variety of angles and detailed pictures of the sites that utilized architectural steel and metal primer and topcoat final coatings. A few wide shots included the skyline to the west, with Loews Hotel Tower, Trump, 474 North Lake Shore Drive, & Lake Point Tower skyscrapers visible in the background of the pier images.

The Navy Pier pierscape renovation is a small part of the plan for Chicago’s historic Navy Pier redesign called The Centennial Vision. Navy Pier celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2016. The first of multiple phases of construction design at Navy Pier included architect and construction company’s development of new architectural structures – Wave Wall, Info Tower, Lake Pavilions, and Kiosks Kiosks with stainless steel canopies and a towering glass and chrome sculpture are among the recent enhancements made now spanning the newly redesigned pierscape in Chicago on the Navy Pier’s South Dock and the Polk Bros. Fountain. The pierscape urban architecture and landscape design project was led by New York based James Corner Field Operations team in the design of the contemporary “pierscape” that will renew the popular destination’s experience and connection to the water. “Re-imagined as a green spine that extends from Lake Michigan back into the city, the Pier’s South Dock anchors a series of thematic rooms filled with engaging social spaces, contemporary architecture, stunning water features, atmospheric lighting, amusements, and seasonal plantings. The new South Dock and adjoining Polk Brothers Park, as well as the upcoming East End Park, Crystal Garden and other public spaces, will make Navy Pier not only a world-class icon, but also a center of activity and culture that is reflective of an authentic, contemporary Chicago identity.”

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The Chicago’s Navy Pier is Illinois’ most popular tourist attraction. The pierscape’s redesign connects the vibrant social and recreational space redesigned to help connect the pier back to the city. Field Operations plans for the architecture of Pierscape to be organized into two categories and scales: large singular structures that merge buildings with landscape and smaller objects that punctuate the pier and frame new views towards Lake Michigan. As the architects on the team, nARCHITECTS collaborated on the overall plan and designed structures that enhance Chicagoans’ connection to the lake by framing, integrating or reflecting the natural environment.

As the centerpiece of the South Dock Promenade, the Wave Wall is a louvered façade that morphs into a grand stair, inspired by the Spanish Steps in Rome at Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti. It connects the South Dock to an upper level amusement park in one continuous and dramatic social space with south facing views of Lake Michigan. As the steps rise and transition into louvers, they reveal access to 30,000 square feet of retail spaces below. The Wave Wall Staircase steps serve not only as a traditional staircase purpose leading upwards from the lakefront up to the Centennial Wheel Navy Pier Chicago, but also dual use as seating for the throughout the Summer, twice a week Navy Pier Firework’s show where many onlookers sit to watch fireworks lighting the sky over Lake Michigan.

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Location: Chicago, IL
Construction of 3,000 ft-long pier redesign and The South Dock and Polk Plaza Navy Pier Project was completed in 2016.

1st Prize, International Competition, with James Corner Field Operations, Team Leader.
Awards: 1st Prize, International Competition; Architizer A+ Awards, Finalist, Mixed-Use Commercial.
Architizer A+ Awards, 2017 Finalist, Architecture + Sustainability: Navy Pier South Dock and Polk Bros. Fountain.
ASLA-NY Honor 2017 Award: Navy Pier South Dock and Polk Bros. Plaza.
Chicago Design Awards, 2017 Gold Winner, Architecture Mixed-Use: Navy Pier.
Offshore – Rooftop Bar at Navy Pier is a 2019 ALA Merit Winner.
2019 Merit Award for Navy Pier from PA-DE ASLA Chapter.
Navy Pier Phase 1 opened in May 2016 and is the first project to achieve Gold certification under the Sustainable SITES Initiative (SITES) v2 rating system.

Chicago Navy Pier Wave Wall Project Collaborators:
Design Architect and Architect of Record for the Wave Wall, Kiosks, Pavilions, and Info Tower by nARCHITECTS.
Interior Architecture for Wave Wall by Gensler Architects.
Project Lead, Prime and Lead Landscape Architect, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design by James Corner Field Operations.
Local Architectural Consultant: Epstein Global.
Structural Engineering: Buro Happold.
MEP & Civil Engineering: Primera Engineering.
Soils and Irrigation: Jeffrey Bruce and Company.
Local Landscape Architect: Terry Guen Design Associates.
Water Feature Design: Fluidity Design Consultants.
Green Wall and Botanical Specialist: Patrick Blanc.
Grass Specialist: John Greenlee & Associates.
Event Planning: Chris Wangro.
Envelope Consultant: Simpson Gumpertz Heger.
Architectural Commercial and Industrial Painting Coatings & Finishing: Tnemec
Lighting Design: L’Observatoire International.
Graphic Design, Signage and Wayfinding: Pentagram.
Industrial Design: Billings Jackson Design.
Traffic Engineering: Kimley-Horn.
Sustainability Consulting: RE:Vision.
Collaborators Phase 2: Architect of Record: Gensler.  Structural: Thornton Tomasetti. MEP Engineering: ESD Global, Code: d’Escoto, Inc.

Contact MILLER+MILLER to discuss your project. Visit our Portfolio section for a variety of image examples – and – click below for two featured projects: The Chicago Skyway or Crescent Dunes Solar both examples of unique, architectural structures photo projects.

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Gems World Academy Chicago Exterior Building Photos

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Our client, a Commercial Construction Company, commissioned Miller + Miller Architectural Photography to capture exterior photos of The Gems World Academy building located in Downtown Chicago. The Gems World Academy Chicago is a private, K-12 campus school created for the City of Chicago’s elite students. This new Chicago educational development is described as hotel-esque, collegiate, and upscale for affluent children with tuition noted at incredible $30,000/year per pupil.

This isn’t our first project photographing an education building architectural photography photos shoot. During this project, our image focus was on the skyscraper school, high-rise building construction and architectural pictures of the finished building. We captured architectural pictures of the state-of-the-art school building in Chicago showcasing the building’s primary entrances and angles on the south & west elevations. Each side of the property’s facade has a playful mix of glass, metal, and unique use of bold colors. As a Chicago Architectural Photographer specializing in new construction and unique architecture building photography, we travel the Nation photographing buildings and shooting photos of many of the United State’s best architecturally designed buildings. We enjoyed the modern & strategic use of material details within this building’s design. The modernist facade elevations of Gems World Academy utilizes eye-catching primary colors. Our client requested day time exterior building photography showing off the building’s unique curtain wall and color filled exterior facade panels. The distinctive mid-rise building stands out within the Chicago skyline with modern interlacing and stripes in red, yellow and blue.

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This is 1 out of our 15 buildings we photographed for our Commercial Construction Company’s architectural client photography project. Photos of Chicago’s GEMS World Academy will go up in our client’s portfolio and as printed images in frames hanging on the Construction Company’s office walls. During office tours, photos of GEMS World Academy have a story to tell. The story will have three parts: GEMS’s construction development, the property’s interesting colorful & unique architecture which is highly photographic as a picture printed inside a frame, and the built building’s purpose as an upscale academy. A building & images with a very interesting story.

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The Gems World Academy Chicago building is a 16-story structure, 322,000 square feet school and the property hosts approximately 2,100 students. Commercial construction developers completed phase 1 in 2014. The modern educational development has won awards building design awards, spotlighted in an issue of Architectural Record, and received the prestigious Mies van der Rohe Citation of Merit for Building Innovation from the Illinois chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

The GEMS World Academy Chicago and development is located in downtown Chicago. The GEMS building, located on Water Street near Wacker Drive, has an address of 350 East South Water Street Chicago, IL 60601. The private school, academy is conveniently located in the heart of the City of Chicago. GEMS World Academy Chicago is the first PreK-12 school in the United States from GEMS Education. How amazing is it that Chicago was picked to host to the academy’s first private school in the United States. A mid-rise skyscraper within the Chicago skyline located in the Lakeshore East community, just east of the Loop. The GEMS World Academy program operates private schools in Chicago and is connected to the GEMS education global network of international schools with school sites currently in China, Egypt, India, Kenya and beyond, with additional locations opening soon in Egypt, Uganda, Switzerland and United Arab Emirates. The GEMS World Academy Phase 2 building construction is underway. Click here to see the GEMS World Academy phase 2 building progress and construction photos looking down from the Vista Tower building. We look forward to watching Phase II building’s construction progress over the next few months. As well as, going back on-site to professionally take photographs of the new building after construction has finished.

A stellar international team created, designed and constructed the GEMS World Academy Chicago property. As well as a team of architects, designers, procurement and health and safety experts and educators contributed to the GEMS World Academy Chicago overall student experience & lifestyle. The companies were responsible for The Gems World Academy Chicago building construction are Architect bKL Architecture, General Contractor for the project is Power Construction and Construction Consultants include Halvorson and Partners Structural, WMA Consulting Engineers, MEP/FP by Mackie Consultants Civil Engineering, Wolff Landscape Architecture, Lighting by Archiluce International, and materials glazed curtain wall, LoE vision glass, translucent glass, and metal panels of various widths and colors application by Harmon Inc. Building awards include: AIA IL 2016 Mies van der Rohe Citation of Merit, IIDA RED Award: Exemplary Design in Educational – PK12 Interiors, ENR Midwest Best Projects Award of Merit: K-12 Education, and ASA Chicago Outstanding Project 2015.

Miller + Miller Architectural Photography are Chicago commercial photographers. Our photography company provides commercial photography for properties & architectural photographs to a variety of clients, industries, organizations, and building companies Nationwide, in Chicago and the suburban area in real estate development, architects, skyscraper, construction services, design build construction, and more. Visit our About Us page for a comprehensive look at the variety of building, commercial industries, and view our Portfolio to see additional images of past project photographs. Looking to become a client? Count on our photography experience, professionally photographing properties since 2006, photographing architectural Chicago projects, building shots with views of the skyline, construction marketing images, finished building project photos, construction sites, and more for companies. Contact us to discuss a photo project!