Although the semicircular plan of t...

Although the semicircular plan of the fresh 32,000-sq.-ft. Educational Resource Center at Midwestern University in the Chicago suburb of Downers wood Ill., is an aesthetic feature, it was shaped on functional considerations.
The accommodation of couple pie-shaped, 175-seat lecture halls was the principal factor that determined the overall plan of the building, which primarily work fors the university's Chicago College of Pharmacy. These censure facilities occupy nearly half the building's convolution but less than one-quarter of its floor area.
While rectangular-shaped prelection ...