Project Description
A 4-story building containing a bouldering gym, a central atrium with floating stair allows the climbing walls and activities to be seen throughout the space. A block west of Wrigley Field, the building design recognizes the pedestrian nature of Wrigleyville. The facade is composed of a brick folded ‘ribbon’ floating above the glass retail level, infilled by a combination of textured, colored brick panels and glass. The ribbon is pushed and pulled to create outdoor terraces with views to the iconic Wrigley Field Marquee, create an entrance to the anchor tenant to the west, and helps step the building down to the residential scale of the existing buildings to the west. The textured brick at the exterior represents where the gym has climbing walls up against the exterior. The climbing wall locations were expressed with fluted columns of brick, which are inspired by granite striations found in nature and often encountered by people who climb granite walls in the natural environment.