Loyola Academy Center for the Performing Arts Chicago, Illinois Jesuit college prep school, USA Architectural News
Loyola Academy Center for the Performing Arts news
July 21, 2021
Location: 1100 Laramie Avenue, Wilmette, Illinois, United States
Design: Krueck Sexton Partners

Loyola Academy Center for the Performing Arts designed by Krueck Sexton Partners, Breaks Ground
Flexible indoor and outdoor performance spaces will expand the student experience at the Jesuit college preparatory school.
Loyola Academy Center for the Performing Arts Building
CHICAGO, July 2021?A striking new performing arts center has broken ground on the campus of Loyola Academy, a private Jesuit college preparatory school in Wilmette, Ill.
Designed by Chicago-based Krueck Sexton Partners (KSP), the $25.76 million Loyola Academy Center for the Performing Arts will transform the northeast corner of the school?s campus with flexible indoor and outdoor performance spaces that support a vibrant arts program for all students.
The 29,000-square-foot building is strategically positioned to form a new campus quadrangle and outdoor plaza that will function as an open-air performance stage and, a social and gathering space for the entire Loyola community, which celebrates the arts as a central part of their individual and collective well-being. A 125-linear-foot undulating curved glass wall will blur the distinction between indoor and outdoor spaces.
?In our conversations with Loyola leadership, it became clear...