Government and Cultural

Restoration of a nearly 100-year-old, two-story Italian Renaissance Revival pavilion: roofing, tuckpointing, limestone cleaning, and foundation and step repairs.

Security upgrades include wrought iron gates, window guards, vandal-resistant LED lighting, and video surveillance.

IGW led a team of architects and engineers to expand and renovate the turn-of-the-century courthouse. A new 90,000-square-foot addition houses courtrooms, holding areas, and judicial support, and the existing 39,000-square-foot courthouse was renovated for court offices.

A later project restored the clock and bell tower and stabilized the masonry.

IGW evaluated an overcrowded facility that was only 12 years old and designed a 52,000-square-foot addition wrapped around the original building, preserving parking and the communications tower.

The 27,000-square-foot original building was then renovated, and a later project consolidated evidence storage and processing.

Built in 1913, the auditorium was renovated during the school year for a modern performing arts program.

The work included a multi-level infill addition for storage and support, restored balcony seating, an enlarged stage and proscenium, an orchestra pit, rigging, lighting, A/V, and acoustics.

Comprehensive design and construction services for a 21,000-square-foot LEED Silver jail and law enforcement facility.

The design incorporates surplus pre-cast modular housing units from the Thomson Correctional Center project in a semi-circular layout centered on a security control room.

Expansion and renovation of government offices, police, and fire stations. A 14,000-square-foot infill addition connected three 1960s buildings under one roof.

The addition created a central atrium and public lobby and gave the complex a new exterior skin.

A 27,000-square-foot addition and remodeling of the 1918 Samuel T. Busey building and its mid-1970s addition, expanding the adult, children's, and archive departments.

Site work includes parking, a drive-up book drop, and an accessible entrance with a pedestrian plaza.

Developed with University of Illinois Professor Jeffery S. Poss and sculptor Dann Nardi, the memorial features black granite walls with war chronologies, paver walkways, landscaped berms, and a 12-foot raised relief globe.

It is grouped with the existing Vietnam and Korean War memorials.