mHUB

Gensler · Chicago, IL

mHUB is a nonprofit innovation center for hardware and manufacturing startups, set in a 1926 warehouse in Chicago’s Fulton Market district that had been sitting empty.  Gensler reworked 80,000 square feet into eleven labs, from woodworking and metals to electronics, plastics as well as textiles, along with meeting rooms and member lounges.  The concrete columns and old steel windows stayed, and new work in black, wood and bright linear light runs between them.  Executive Construction built it, with Syska Hennessy Group on mechanical, electrical and plumbing.

Brick warehouse entrance of mHUB glowing at dusk under a purple sky in Chicago
Reception desk with a wood block front and patterned wall panels inside mHUB
Lobby lounge with angled light lines and a makers statement on the wall at mHUB
Open workshop with blue steel workbenches under exposed timber trusses at mHUB
Member lounge with long wood tables and concrete columns beneath the logo wall at mHUB
Green living wall beside a corridor leading to an event space at mHUB
Display shelving for member products in front of the logo wall at mHUB
Electronics lab workstation with steel windows and a blue lounge beyond at mHUB
Metals lab with a band saw and CNC machines at mHUB
Woodworking shop with workbenches and a panel saw beneath tall factory windows at mHUB