Foster City, CA – October 27, 2008 –
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced that the company’s Chicago 3 International Business Exchange (IBX®) data center has won an award in the Distinguished Building category of the Design Excellence Awards presented by the Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA Chicago). The 2008 winners of the awards, selected from a field of 379 entries by a jury of distinguished architects from around the country, are being honored for outstanding work in the areas of distinguished building, interior architecture, sustainable design, and architectural detail.
The center, located in Elk Grove Village, IL, is one of the largest stand alone data centers in the Chicago area and is the size of four football fields. It serves as a critical hub in the infrastructure of the Internet, providing a high-performance, high-security location where Internet and corporate networks interconnect with each other.
The architect for the project was Sheehan Partners, Ltd. a Chicago based architecture firm that specializes in technically challenging projects such as data centers, trading floors and other mission critical facilities. Blair Kamin, the architecture critic at the Chicago Tribune, said of the design, “It elevates that usually anonymous building type with an artful contrast of blunt concrete walls and inviting protrusions of glass. In picking it, the jurors were sending the right message: Good design can happen where you least expect it.”
This is the 53rd year in which AIA Chicago has recognized the achievements of architecture professionals with the Design Excellence Awards. Founded in 1869, AIA Chicago represents over 3,000 licensed architects, architectural interns and allied professionals in northeastern Illinois. AIA Chicago is the second largest AIA chapter in the nation.
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