CTA 95th/Dan Ryan Terminal Station | Chicago, Illinois | 2019

Architects: EXP
Lead Architect: Thomas Hoepf
Design Team: Jef Jakalski, Mindy Viamontes, Jasenko Badic, Casey Johnson, Alzira Maldonado Protsishin, Melina De Oliveira Sanchez, Samantha Serpico, Saul Moreno, Sara Feterolf, and John Stryker
General Contractor: F.H. Paschen, S.N. Nielsen & Associates LLC.
Client: Chicago Transit Authority
Photographers: James Steinkamp Photography

Located between the north and southbound lanes of the Dan Ryan Expressway, the 95th Street multimodal Terminal Station reconnects southside communities to opportunities throughout Chicago and is the largest reconstruction in CTA history.

Scope included renovation/expansion of the existing North Terminal, construction of a new South Terminal, reconstruction of bus bridges, and various street level improvements.

This design/build project was completed in 2019.

The station was conceived as a continuous ribbon stretched south to north, tying the two terminals together, with the thinnest point at the new pedestrian bridge across 95th Street. The Station influences its context beyond its primary use as transportation infrastructure to become “cultural infrastructure” with ambitions of serving as public sculpture that animates and enlivens at many scales: at the city scale as an iconic southern gateway to Chicago; at the neighborhood scale with the view from blocks away connecting east and west; and at the pedestrian scale as an open and inviting neighborhood station.

Public art includes an in-station catalyst sound studio that fosters community engagement and training to neighborhood students. Chicago Tribune Architecture Critic Blair Kamin noted: “. . . the building spreads the benefits of well-designed infrastructure to an area that really needs it. The ribbon-like red walls visually connect the north and south terminals, turning what could have been two static and separate buildings into a dynamic whole."