Burr Ridge Village Hall and Police Department
Wins Distinguished Building Award

Burr Ridge Village Hall and Police Department, designed by Interplan Practice, Ltd., Oak Brook Terrace, Illinois, won a Distinguished Building Award at the Eastern Illinois Chapter of the American Institute of Architects Bi-Annual Design Awards Program on December 7, 1986. It is one of four awards Interplan won that night.

The building replaced a tract home and garage that housed the Village Hall and Police Department for the past 10 years. During this time the Burr Ridge population more than doubled, growing from 2,228 in 1975 to approximately 4,700 in 1984. According to the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, Burr Ridge is expected to nearly double again by the year 2005.

Recognizing that rapid growth in the basically single family community would require capital investments, the Village taxed developers as a condition to build. Burr Ridge saved the development taxes and used the money to finance the design and construction of their new facility.

The former 3,000 square-foot village hall used bedrooms for offices, the basement for village meetings, and the garage as the police headquarters. The new building designed by Interplan, located in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, has 10,000 square feet of space divided into three major areas with 5,000 square feet in the basement for future expansion. Public meeting space is situated at the front of the building with a wing for municipal administrative offices and a wing for the police department. The building configuration will easily allow additions to the existing structure as the village continues to grow.

Visitors enter the building through a centralized lobby and can then move on to the police department, administrative offices or the meeting rooms.

The public meeting space, located at the tip of the "V" shaped building, has a large table conference room and a board room that seats over 45 people. The administration wing has five private offices, a computer room and a secretarial area that provides desks for five people.

The police department contains four lock up cells, a booking area, a combined sally port and evidence room, a detectives' area, a shift command room and a Police Chief's office. The lockups allow prisoners to be held overnight, which was impossible at the previous facility. The special sally port entrance allows prisoners and police to move in and out of the building in privacy without using the main entrance.

Burr Ridge is a residential village whose inhabitants wanted their new Village Hall and Police Department to reflect the character of the community. Interplan designed a structure with high pitched cedar shake roofs similar to the affluent homes in the area.

The award jury, which consisted of Jack Hartray of Nagle Hartray and Associates, Ralph Johnson of Perkins & Will both of Chicago, and Walter Lewis from the University of Illinois/Champaign-Urbana, said "the structure results in a powerful sculptural form which transcends the intent of merely creating a residential character."

Not only does the building transcend the intent of creating a residential character, it provides an abundance of space much needed by city officials who were cramped into a building with too much residential character.

Burr Ridge Village Hall and Police Department Statistics
Municipal	5,637 S.F.
Police	4,438 S.F.
Lower Level	5,672 S.F.
Total	15,747 S.F.
Date of Completion: August 1986
Cost of Construction: $1,341,508

Funding: A developer bought an old prison property that was in an unincorporated area. In order to become a part of Burr Ridge an annexation agreement was written. The agreement called for the developer to donate $800,000 to a building fund. Other developers contributed also, making the building fund large enough to almost cover the entire cost of construction.

The Village President Emil J. Coglianese and the Board of Trustees are to be complimented for bringing about this award winning facility to their community. •

February 1987 / Illinois Municipal Review / Page 5