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The new McDonald's flagship restaurant in
Chicago.
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FREE and
ONLINE
Tuesday, May 12, 2020, 5:30-7:00 pm CDT
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There will be a Q&A
session after the lecture. Audience
participation is invited.
Be
sure to have your cocktails and
cigars at ready hand.
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The new McDonald's in Disney World, under
construction.
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Chicago architect Carol
Ross Barney, FAIA, will join the
Cigar Society to talk about the two
McDonald’s flagship restaurants that her
firm has designed recently. The new
McDonald's in Chicago, replacing the Rock
and Roll McDonald's, is designed to
achieve LEED Platinum certification (the
highest level in the Leadership in Energy
and Environmental Design rating system, as
managed by the U.S. Green Building
Council) and the new flagship restaurant
at Disney World, which is designed to meet
net-zero energy consumption. The
discussion will highlight the push by
McDonald's to design these two restaurants
to be architecturally exciting while
making a bold statement about their
commitment to sustainability. Ms. Ross
Barney is the founder and Design Principal
of Ross Barney Architects. She writes,
The new Chicago Flagship celebrates the
pure simplicity and enduring
authenticity of McDonald’s, welcoming
both residents and visitors to a playful
and informal gathering place in the
heart of the city.
The site is a full city block, just
steps off Michigan Avenue, occupied
since 1985 by the iconic “Rock ‘n Roll”
McDonald’s that emphasized drive through
services. The new design re-balances
car-pedestrian traffic creating a city
oasis where people can eat, drink and
meet. Landscape area increase 72% with
43% of the site being open and
pedestrian focused, producing a new
park-like amenity for a dense area of
the city.
The dining room features a garden
planted with ferns and white birch trees
floating above a digital ordering
“street”. From this vantage point guests
can experience the landscape beyond and
above. Over shared tables with wireless
charging and outlets, “tapestries” of
living plants improve indoor air quality
and provide a backdrop of green
gradients. What might surprise many can
be found on the adjacent kitchen roof: a
row of harvestable apple trees can be
seen through a clerestory window,
telling a story about the future of
urban farming and the utilization of
often underused space.
McDonald’s corporate commitment to
“make sustainability the new normal” is
at the core of the new restaurant
design. The structural system, Cross
Laminated Timber (CLT), will be the
first commercial use in Chicago and has
a lighter environmental footprint than
concrete and steel. The solar pergola
will capture the sun’s energy, supplying
part of the buildings consumption needs.
Throughout the site, permeable paving is
used to reduce storm water runoff and
the heat island effect. The building is
designed to achieve LEED certification.
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Carol Ross Barney, FAIA, has been in
the vanguard of civic-space design since
founding Ross Barney Architects in 1981.
With a career that spans over 40 years,
Carol has made significant contributions
to the built environment, the profession,
and architectural education. As an
architect, urbanist, mentor, and educator,
she has relentlessly advocated that
excellent design is a right, not a
privilege. Her body of work occupies a
unique place within the panorama of
contemporary architecture, being
exclusively composed of work in the public
realm.
Carol’s projects vary in type and scale,
but uphold a deep commitment to the role
architecture plays in life quality. This
has manifest itself in design of spaces
that enrich the metropolitan experience;
to buildings that are environmental
stewards, showcasing sustainability in an
overtly compelling way; to spaces that
inspire young children and the brightest
minds of tomorrow to learn, invent, and
break boundaries.
Carol’s work has been honored with over
100 major design awards, including six
national American Institute of Architects
Institute Honor Awards, over 40 AIA
Chicago Awards, two AIA Committee on the
Environment (COTE) Top Ten Project Awards,
and the AIA Chicago Lifetime Achievement
Award, the AIA Thomas Jefferson Award for
Public Architecture and the AIA Illinois
Gold Medal, all for a distinguished body
of work. She was named as a “Game-changer”
by Metropolis magazine in 2018.
For nearly two decades, Carol’s studio has
been working along Chicago’s Rivers. These
efforts include the design of the Chicago
Riverwalk and studies on one hundred fifty
miles of riverfront across the city. The
goal: reconnect people with the dynamic
and changing life of the City’s natural
resources.
Other Notable projects include the
McDonald’s Chicago Flagship Restaurant,
CTA Cermak- McCormick Place and CTA Morgan
Street Stations, Jewish Reconstructionist
Congregation Synagogue, James I Swenson
Civil Engineering Building, Oklahoma City
Federal Building, Bloomingdale / 606 Trail
Master Plan, Multi Modal Terminal at
O’Hare International Airport and design of
schools for Chicago and communities across
the country.
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About
the
Cigar Society of Chicago
ONE OF THE OLDEST AND
greatest traditions of the city clubs of
Chicago is the discussion of intellectual,
social, legal, artistic, historical,
scientific, musical, theatrical, and
philosophical issues in the company of
educated, bright, and appropriately
provocative individuals, all under the
beneficent influence of substantial
amounts of tobacco and spirits. The
Cigar Society of Chicago
embraces this tradition and extends it
with its Informal Smokers, University
Series lectures, and Cigar
Society Dinners, in which cigars,
and from time to time pipes and
cigarettes, appear as an important
component of our version of the classical
symposium. To be included in the
Cigar Society's mailing list, write to the
secretary at
curtis.tuckey@logicophilosophicus.org
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