Metropolitan Correctional Center Chicago building
- Architect
- Harry Weese
- Year
- 1975
- Style
- Brutalism
- City
- Chicago, IL
The Metropolitan Correctional Center Chicago is a federal detention center in the Loop, designed by Harry Weese and completed in 1975 in the brutalist style. Rather than sitting on a remote site, it was built as a triangular high-rise downtown, an unusual typological approach to jail design for its time.
the building
Triangular tower. The building's triangular plan and narrow slit windows are distinctive and highly visible from the street, an unusual form for a jail that reads more like an office high-rise than a conventional detention facility.
the style
The Metropolitan Correctional Center is built in the brutalist style, and its triangular massing and narrow slit windows give the concrete form the fortress-like, minimally articulated character associated with brutalist institutional buildings.
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