The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago was designed by Josef Paul Kleihues of Berlin, chosen from six finalists, in his first American building. Its board of trustees funded construction on the site of a National Guard Armory demolished in 1993. The museum opened on June 21 and 22, 1996. The page gives no construction dates.
The article says the design references Mies van der Rohe's modernism and Chicago architecture, and the entrance staircase recalls the Propylaia. It uses a 16-foot Indiana limestone base, a 56-foot glass facade and hand-cast aluminum panels. The building covers 220,000 square feet, with 45,000 of galleries.
The page calls it both four and five stories and cites a 55 million dollar estimate against a later 46.5 million. Johnston Marklee reworked 12,000 square feet in 2017. It lists Wednesday to Sunday hours of 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Tuesdays until 9 p.m., which may be outdated.
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