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Its campus center isn't the only Illinois Institute of Technology building attracting attention this fall. Helmut Jahn's new residence- hall complex, just across 33rd Street, would be the standout in any other year, or on any other campus. Clad in curving, corrugated steel that echoes that of the giant, train-bearing tube above the new McCormick Tribune Campus Center, the complex is bold enough to sit beside the Rem Koolhaas building and at the same time simple enough to be respectful of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's masterpiece, S.R. Crown Hall, which houses IIT's architecture school on the other side of State Street.