Cordogan, Clark & Associates is a full service architectural, planning and engineering firm of innovative professionals committed to excellence. We provide advance value planning and accurate research to develop projects of high design quality, functional efficiency, and cost effectiveness. By completing projects within budget and on schedule, CCA has earned its reputation as effective architects and problem solvers.

The structure of our firm allows close, personal participation by principals and key personnel on each project. Assisted by an excellent staff of trained professionals, the principals guide each project from programming and conceptual stages through construction and occupancy, providing experienced project management and consistent design quality. CCA believes in providing each client's project the continual, personal focus of a trained team of professionals, whose level of expertise is achieved through years of on-the-job experience. Our design methodology encourages a high level of client involvement as an informed, integral member of the team, through all phases of the project. This collaborative process has proven highly successful in creating distinctive architecture that exceeds our clients' expectations.


News & Events

Northern Illinois University Completes New Fay-Cooper Cole Hall: Spring Semester 2012
2/22/2012

This spring semester, Northern Illinois University unveiled the newly renovated and expanded Fay-Cooper Cole Hall. The 1960s-era building, located at the heart of campus, has been transformed into a collaborative-learning environment that university officials believe will be looked to as a national ....

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Cole Hall Reopens Today
1/17/2012

High-tech facility could become model for collaborative learning :

With the spring semester beginning today, NIU unveiled a new crown jewel on campus — the renovated and super-high-tech Fay-Cooper Cole Hall.

What had been one of the university’s most outdated facilities is ....

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Cordogan, Clark & Associates in Limited International Competition
10/26/2011

Cordogan, Clark & Associates was selected as the only U.S. architectural firm to participate in a limited international competition for the design of the new corporate headquarters of China Aviation Industry Corporation, or AVIC, in Beijing. AVIC is a major aviation company whose focus is to efficie....

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Cordogan, Clark & Associates featured in Chicago Gallery News
10/26/2011

Cordogan, Clark & Associates gallery projects have been featured on the cover of the preceding two issues of Chicago Gallery News.

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Marmion Academy Completes New Phase of a Multi-Phase Campus Expansion: Fall, 2011
9/9/2011

When school resumed at Marmion Academy this fall, students were greeted by a new building on campus: the Regole Field House. This 36,000 s.f. precast concrete and glass structure contains three practice basketball courts, a running track, sprint track, golf / baseball practice cages, long jump pit....

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Roquette America Opens Innovation Center
6/29/2011

The 40,000-square-foot first phase of the new Roquette Innovation Center, a sustainable, high-tech center for corn processor, was completed this spring. The facility includes test labs, a pilot production plant, a kitchen, an auditorium and meeting rooms. Sustainable features include water-efficien....

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Waubonsee Celebrates Aurora Campus Opening
6/28/2011

On Friday, June 3, Waubonsee Community College celebrated the grand opening of its new downtown Aurora Campus at an event that drew more than 1,000 people. In addition to building tours, attendees heard remarks from Aurora Mayor Thomas Weisner and several Waubonsee officials highlighting how student....

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Aurora Police Headquarters Garners Another Award
4/7/2011

The Aurora Police Headquarters and Branch Court Facility has another award to add to its display case after being recognized by the Chicago Metropolitan Chapter of the American Public Works Association (APWA).

The police facility was named APWA's "Structures - $25 Million to $75 Million" ....

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Illinois State University: Watterson Towers Renovation
1/17/2011

Home to 2,200 Illinois State University students during the academic year, Watterson Towers is the tallest residence hall in the United States. Watterson is designed in room clusters, or "suites", as an alternative to traditional linear corridor-style residence hall. The 28-story twin-tower complex ....

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NIU unveils plan for remodeled Cole Hall: Fall 2011 reopening planned
9/17/2010

DeKalb, Ill. — Northern Illinois University today unveiled plans for a remodeled Cole Hall. When work is completed the building will include a state-of-the-art lecture hall, a new home for the NIU Anthropology Museum and a computer laboratory designed to cultivate collaborative problem solving sk....

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Aurora Police Headquarters
9/12/2010

The newly completed Aurora Police Headquarters and Branch Courts by Cordogan, Clark & Associates with McClaren Wilson and Lawrie, nationally recognized specialists in architecture for law enforcement and forensic sciences, features state-of-the-art technology, substantial increases in the amount of ....

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Sugar Grove Public Library
11/24/2009

The new 25,000 square foot Sugar Grove Public Library, designed by Cordogan Clark and Associates,in association with Leo A Daly, replaces the 6,000 square foot building that had housed the library for 37 years. The new Sugar Grove library celebrates the future as well as the past, blending a regiona....

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Green Bank Design Pays Dividends
7/8/2009

The architectural design of Devon Bank’s new Wheeling branch, designed by Cordogan Clark & Associates, shows that quality green design pays dividends. Soon after opening, this branch bank met its investment goals for the entire year. In addition to highlighting this bank’s superior customer service,....

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41st and 43rd Street Bridges
City of Chicago

7/8/2009

"As the ordinary directness of line in town-streets, with its resultant regularity of plan would suggest eagerness to press forward without looking to the right hand or the left… we should recommend the general adoption, in the design of your roads, of gracefully-curved lines, generous spaces, an....

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Aurora University's Institute for Collaboration
6/10/2009

The new Institute for Collaboration is an innovative, collaborative "real world" learning laboratory that incorporates tutoring, community service, and professional certification. Built on the south edge of campus, it complements existing "Richardsonian Romanesque" campus architecture while comforta....

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