Left middle: The Carbide & Carbon Building, 40 floors, 503 feet / 153 meter, at the southwest corner of Michigan and Water, completed in 1929, was built in Art Deco style as an office tower. Today it is the Hard Rock Hotel.
This it is not your typical Art Deco Chicago skyscraper.
Most of Chicago's Art Deco architecture is clad in light gray Bedford limestone. The Carbon & Carbide Building, however, has a unique array of colors covering its facade. Composed of a polished black granite base and a tower covered in deep green terra cotta, it stands out as a one-of-a-kind landmark on the Michigan Avenue skyline. Extensive use of gold leaf is another highlight of the building's features. It's not just on the edges of the building - it virtually coats the spire and drapes itself across the shoulders and setbacks of the upper levels. But the glitter is not reserved for those in the stratosphere - the gold accents continue all the way down to street level. All that glitz isn't an accident. There is an urban legend which states that the shape and color of the building were inspired by a champagne bottle. It's not that hard to imagine it as a green curvy bottle with bubbly foaming from the top and dripping down the sides.
With its celebratory origins, the Carbide & Carbon Building is a truly authentic building that simply refuses to be ignored.
Left back: The biggest, brightest jewel in Chicago's architectural crown belongs not to some glass and steel skyscraper, but to an historic office building with wedding cake flair and a clock tower. The Wrigley Building, completed in 1921, is actually two buildings joined by a 14th floor skywalk and a street-level arcade. Its gleaming white facade is an icon of the city, even when the quarter million terra cotta tiles are lit in different colors by banks of floodlights.
The shape of the lot the Wrigley building is on is quite an advantage. The space is an obtuse triangle with two sides facing south and southeast. This gives the building maximum exposure to pedestrian, vehicular, and boat traffic. The remaining side faces into the Trump International Hotel and Tower, which was designed to reflect the Wrigley Building's beauty and acknowledge its presence through setbacks that keep Trump from crowding this beloved edifice.
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Monday, November 26, 2012
Classic iron fire escape Chicago IL
In Chicago (a city that has a special history with fire), people are so used to seeing the old iron fire escapes on the outside of buildings built anywhere from the late 1880s up thru the 1930s that they just blend into the rest of the noise.
Every facet of the urban landscape has a story to tell; so much so that we tend to take for granted much of our surroundings. Have you ever stopped to consider the history or unique composition of a fire escape? Within a year after the first patent for a fire escape was issued in 1887 (to Ms. Anna Connelly), the U.S. Patent Office had issued patents for 1,100 competitive designs and unique styles, encompassing many different forms and every conceivable material. The real beauty of Ms. Connelly's invention was that these inexpensive metal structures could be attached to both new and existing buildings.
Does the complex in which you live or work have a fire escape? Would you use this historical architectural curiosity if there was a fire in your building? If well maintained, a fire escape is still a life saving structure. Unfortunately, it's often difficult to tell if a fire escape is safe to use or not.
Residential buildings tend to have an additional, unique set of problems when it comes to their old emergency escapes. It seems that they get a lot of use ... just not for their intended purpose. City inspectors and fire escape maintenance companies commonly report the passages being exploited as urban gardens, personal balconies, clothes dryers, and smoking lounges.
Hanging there on buildings all over The Loop these Escheresque, geometrical structures, add yet another distinctive element to the facades of Chicago's historic buildings. Today, with the advent of new fangled construction materials and redundant fire prevention systems, Chicago's updated building codes have done away with the fire escape as a component of new construction, going so far as to prohibit them in all but very, very specific circumstances.
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Every facet of the urban landscape has a story to tell; so much so that we tend to take for granted much of our surroundings. Have you ever stopped to consider the history or unique composition of a fire escape? Within a year after the first patent for a fire escape was issued in 1887 (to Ms. Anna Connelly), the U.S. Patent Office had issued patents for 1,100 competitive designs and unique styles, encompassing many different forms and every conceivable material. The real beauty of Ms. Connelly's invention was that these inexpensive metal structures could be attached to both new and existing buildings.
Does the complex in which you live or work have a fire escape? Would you use this historical architectural curiosity if there was a fire in your building? If well maintained, a fire escape is still a life saving structure. Unfortunately, it's often difficult to tell if a fire escape is safe to use or not.
Residential buildings tend to have an additional, unique set of problems when it comes to their old emergency escapes. It seems that they get a lot of use ... just not for their intended purpose. City inspectors and fire escape maintenance companies commonly report the passages being exploited as urban gardens, personal balconies, clothes dryers, and smoking lounges.
Hanging there on buildings all over The Loop these Escheresque, geometrical structures, add yet another distinctive element to the facades of Chicago's historic buildings. Today, with the advent of new fangled construction materials and redundant fire prevention systems, Chicago's updated building codes have done away with the fire escape as a component of new construction, going so far as to prohibit them in all but very, very specific circumstances.
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Sunday, November 25, 2012
Smurfit-Stone Chicago - now Crain Communications Building
The Crain Communications Building - Also known as: Diamond Building
Formerly: 150 North Michigan Avenue
Formerly: Smurfit-Stone Building
Formerly: Stone Container Building
Formerly: Associates Center
The Smurfit-Stone Building (now Crain Communications Building) in Chicago, Illinois is one of a kind. Some may argue it is the most unique building to distinguish the Chicago skyline from others. Finished in 1984, the 582 foot (177 m) skyscraper at the northwest corner of Grant and Millennium Parks, nestled between the classical columns of the Chicago Cultural Center, the cone-topped Two Prudential, and the plain boxes of Prudential headquarters and the AON Center, has a slanted top that carves through the top 10 of its 41 floors. The official count of 41 floors does not include 5 levels of unused space in the narrowest portion at the top of the diamond. Some wags have pointed out that the Crain Communications Building, with its diamond-shape top, looks like a skyscraper slashed with a knife.
This building is one of Chicago's signature structures, what it lacks in height, it more than makes up for in style. Its gleaming white exterior is accented with dark pinstripes of windows. Its orientation embraces Lake Michigan just a few hundred yards away, while at the same time it's characteristic slanted roof mimics, mocks, or yearns to be part of the sailboat crowd in the nearby Chicago Harbor.
The architects didn't merely take a square and cut a wedge out of it like a children's block. They cut it on an angle, using a simple subtractive motion to create a diamond shape in the sky. Closer examination reveals that it isn't even a simple diamond, but rather two nearly identical triangles, but that is a detail lost on most observers. What they delight in is the notion that the building is still not done inventing itself. That it is growing with a leading angle like a massive lily sprouting on the lakeshore. Others fail to see the beauty and whimsy intrinsic to this building. Instead, they see it as an affront to the other classic Chicago architecture on Michigan Avenue.
But if not for those buildings that stand out, would not the Avenue's marble cliff seem that much more ordinary and under appreciated?
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Formerly: 150 North Michigan Avenue
Formerly: Smurfit-Stone Building
Formerly: Stone Container Building
Formerly: Associates Center
The Smurfit-Stone Building (now Crain Communications Building) in Chicago, Illinois is one of a kind. Some may argue it is the most unique building to distinguish the Chicago skyline from others. Finished in 1984, the 582 foot (177 m) skyscraper at the northwest corner of Grant and Millennium Parks, nestled between the classical columns of the Chicago Cultural Center, the cone-topped Two Prudential, and the plain boxes of Prudential headquarters and the AON Center, has a slanted top that carves through the top 10 of its 41 floors. The official count of 41 floors does not include 5 levels of unused space in the narrowest portion at the top of the diamond. Some wags have pointed out that the Crain Communications Building, with its diamond-shape top, looks like a skyscraper slashed with a knife.
This building is one of Chicago's signature structures, what it lacks in height, it more than makes up for in style. Its gleaming white exterior is accented with dark pinstripes of windows. Its orientation embraces Lake Michigan just a few hundred yards away, while at the same time it's characteristic slanted roof mimics, mocks, or yearns to be part of the sailboat crowd in the nearby Chicago Harbor.
The architects didn't merely take a square and cut a wedge out of it like a children's block. They cut it on an angle, using a simple subtractive motion to create a diamond shape in the sky. Closer examination reveals that it isn't even a simple diamond, but rather two nearly identical triangles, but that is a detail lost on most observers. What they delight in is the notion that the building is still not done inventing itself. That it is growing with a leading angle like a massive lily sprouting on the lakeshore. Others fail to see the beauty and whimsy intrinsic to this building. Instead, they see it as an affront to the other classic Chicago architecture on Michigan Avenue.
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Friday, November 23, 2012
Chicago Theatre - This theater exudes class
The Chicago Theatre with its iconic sign is a landmark in Chicago. Its "French Baroque Style" makes it look like something out of a movie.
The beauty starts outside, as patrons can't pass the iconic Marquee. The ornate beauty continues inside, as the main lobby is gorgeous. The art school kids might say: Rococo. The curving staircases and details scream Paris, and there are lots of pictures of "the Chicago Theatre throughout the years" hanging on the walls. And whether it's a loud rock band or a mostly acoustic set, the sound is fabulous. No weird echos, no reflections, no mysterious buzzing. Just crisp, clean, loudness.
It's old, fancy, huge, nice cushioned seating send you back in time.
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The beauty starts outside, as patrons can't pass the iconic Marquee. The ornate beauty continues inside, as the main lobby is gorgeous. The art school kids might say: Rococo. The curving staircases and details scream Paris, and there are lots of pictures of "the Chicago Theatre throughout the years" hanging on the walls. And whether it's a loud rock band or a mostly acoustic set, the sound is fabulous. No weird echos, no reflections, no mysterious buzzing. Just crisp, clean, loudness.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Chicago State Street - That great street - Christine Till
State Street is a large south-north street in Chicago, Illinois, USA and its south suburbs. At turn of the 19th to the 20th century a tourist said about it: "You take you life in your hands when you attempt crossing State Street with its endless stream of rattling wagons and clanging trolley cars. New York does not for a moment compare with Chicago in the roar and bustle and bewilderment of its street life." Pedestrians, street cars, and horse-drawn carts and carriages all shared the road in this early 20th century review of "State Street, that great street." Since then, the historic corridor has maintained its reputation as one of Chicago's most visited streets.
State Street was, and continues to be, one of the main avenues of traffic and commerce in the center of Chicago's central business district, the Loop. Recognized as Chicago's original "Main Street", State Street went through extensive renovations in the mid-1990s that spurred a renewed interest in business, real estate, entertainment and tourism in the area. State Street became a shopping destination and is referred to in the song "Chicago," sung by Frank Sinatra where Frank refers it to "State Street, that great street."
The historic Chicago Theatre is also located on State Street. It was lit by Commercial Light Company in 1958, making it - according to the Chicago Tribune - the brightest thoroughfare in the world.
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State Street was, and continues to be, one of the main avenues of traffic and commerce in the center of Chicago's central business district, the Loop. Recognized as Chicago's original "Main Street", State Street went through extensive renovations in the mid-1990s that spurred a renewed interest in business, real estate, entertainment and tourism in the area. State Street became a shopping destination and is referred to in the song "Chicago," sung by Frank Sinatra where Frank refers it to "State Street, that great street."
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Monday, November 19, 2012
Chicago's Crown Fountain at night
As the centerpiece of Chicago's Millennium Park, the Crown Fountain is rumored to be one of the most expensive pieces of public art ever undertaken. Designed by Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa, the Crown Fountain is a gift to the city from the Crown and Goodman families of Chicago.
The fountain consists of two 50-foot-high clear glass-brick towers facing each other across a shallow 232-foot-long reflecting pool. On three sides, the towers glow from within thanks to color-changing LED lighting fixtures - approximately 70 units per tower, while the fourth sides feature LED display screens that feature the expressive close-up faces of almost 1,000 Chicagoans. Each face is shown for about five minutes ending when the subject purses its lips at which point water spouts from their mouths. The Chicagoans whose faces were captured include people of all ages, from toddlers to senior citizens. They were filmed with an expensive high-definition camera - used in the Star Wars movies - and were asked to make facial expressions. They were also told to pretend they were blowing out a candle. This actions is now synchronised with the water spouting fountain.
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The fountain consists of two 50-foot-high clear glass-brick towers facing each other across a shallow 232-foot-long reflecting pool. On three sides, the towers glow from within thanks to color-changing LED lighting fixtures - approximately 70 units per tower, while the fourth sides feature LED display screens that feature the expressive close-up faces of almost 1,000 Chicagoans. Each face is shown for about five minutes ending when the subject purses its lips at which point water spouts from their mouths. The Chicagoans whose faces were captured include people of all ages, from toddlers to senior citizens. They were filmed with an expensive high-definition camera - used in the Star Wars movies - and were asked to make facial expressions. They were also told to pretend they were blowing out a candle. This actions is now synchronised with the water spouting fountain.
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Saturday, November 17, 2012
Chicago - That famous skyline
The skyline of a city is like a fingerprint, unique and as easily identifiable as a country's flag or a national symbol.
Chicago is known world-wide for its progressive architecture. It holds one of the world's tallest buildings, some of the first in the art-deco movement, and many other unique and dramatic design choices in its buildings. The city went through a very early high-rise construction boom that lasted from the early 1920s to the mid-1930s, during which time 11 of the city's 91 tallest buildings were constructed. The city then went through an even larger building boom that has lasted from the early 1960s until the present. As of July 2011, there were 1,125 completed high-rises in the city, second in the country behind New York. Based on the average height of the ten tallest completed buildings, Chicago has the tallest skyline in the world.
Standing on one of the cities observation decks practically makes you part of history. It gives you a taste of grown up American and what America is all about - and the view makes it all worthwhile.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
River City Chicago - A city within a city
The downtown Chicago River segment begins with River City, a unique, 17-story concrete residential building and marina. Bertrand Goldberg, the same designer behind the Marina City complex, designed this structure. The no-wake zone begins here and continues throughout the rest of the South Branch and Main Stem of the Chicago River.
This development in Chicago's South Loop neighborhood was originally intended to be a series of four towers 85-stories tall. The current River City building is designed to allow the rest of its tower to be built on top. It is one of the most distinctive residential buildings in the city's south side. The buildings that make up this complex are S-shaped, and each of the apartment units is wedge-shaped, fanning out from the center either towards the windows or inward to the atrium. Additionally, the building has its own private marina.
River City hugs the bank, and its residents enjoy the benefit of a peaceful refuge from the hustle and bustle of the city since, at River City, cosmopolitanism melds with nature.
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This development in Chicago's South Loop neighborhood was originally intended to be a series of four towers 85-stories tall. The current River City building is designed to allow the rest of its tower to be built on top. It is one of the most distinctive residential buildings in the city's south side. The buildings that make up this complex are S-shaped, and each of the apartment units is wedge-shaped, fanning out from the center either towards the windows or inward to the atrium. Additionally, the building has its own private marina.
River City hugs the bank, and its residents enjoy the benefit of a peaceful refuge from the hustle and bustle of the city since, at River City, cosmopolitanism melds with nature.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Chicago from above - What a view
If you're planning a trip to the Windy City, experts and travelers alike highly recommend seeing Chicago from above.
The Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) observation deck, as well as nearby Hancock Tower and Observatory, offer fantastic views of the beauty of this gorgeous, complicated city. But looking down is more than just taking in the sights, sounds and flavors of one of America's most architecturally stunning skylines and Lake Michigan. It also gives an impression of Chicago's diversity and complexity. This city's buildings are a physical representation of the strength and energy metaphorically coursing through the metropolis' veins.
If, as Sinatra croons, Chicago is your kinda town, this dizzying experience is not to be missed.
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The Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) observation deck, as well as nearby Hancock Tower and Observatory, offer fantastic views of the beauty of this gorgeous, complicated city. But looking down is more than just taking in the sights, sounds and flavors of one of America's most architecturally stunning skylines and Lake Michigan. It also gives an impression of Chicago's diversity and complexity. This city's buildings are a physical representation of the strength and energy metaphorically coursing through the metropolis' veins.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Chicago - Harold Washington Library
The Harold Washington Library, named after late Mayor Harold Washington, Chicago's first African American mayor, is the jewel in the crown of the Chicago Public Library system, not only in terms of size/scale, but also in terms of the breathtaking architecture, exhibits/installations to peruse, author appearances, and special events - the list just goes on.
The monumental building, occupies an entire city block. At the time of its completion, this was the largest public library in the world. A world class library for a world class city!
The post-modern neo-classical building with its design using elements of ancient Greek and Roman structures, its red-brick facade and axial symmetry, typifies Beaux-Arts style, while its roof is topped with soaring bronze acroteria and a glass and aluminum pedimented attic. On the inside, the lobby's high ceilings, and the glass skylights in the Winter Garden and elsewhere, add to the sense of grandeur and scale.
Seven large sculptures can be seen on the roof, featuring several representations of the bird owl, a bird associated with Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, knowlegde and learning. More specifically, the building's iconography relates to the Midwest and to Chicago. The head of Ceres, Roman goddess of grain, appears in wall medallions together with ears of corn, the pairing symbolic of prairie agriculture, and the meaning of the "Windy City Man" high on the facade is obvious.
Although the 10 stories Harold Washington Library building is pretty young, built from 1989 to 1991, it blends in perfectly with the historical buildings in Chicago's Loop area. It looks like a building from the 19th century.
To the surprise of no one who's seen it, Chicago's majestic Harold Washington Library is the third on the list of The Most Beautiful Libraries In America ... the perfect place to take a break from the rushed life of a traveler to relax with a good book.
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The monumental building, occupies an entire city block. At the time of its completion, this was the largest public library in the world. A world class library for a world class city!
The post-modern neo-classical building with its design using elements of ancient Greek and Roman structures, its red-brick facade and axial symmetry, typifies Beaux-Arts style, while its roof is topped with soaring bronze acroteria and a glass and aluminum pedimented attic. On the inside, the lobby's high ceilings, and the glass skylights in the Winter Garden and elsewhere, add to the sense of grandeur and scale.
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
Chicago Harbor Lighthouse Illinois
The 1800s saw Chicago Harbor become an important strategic military location and shipping route, the country's busiest port at the main route connecting the East Coast and the Gulf Coast via the Great Lakes, and the U.S. government authorized the construction of the harbor's first lighthouse in 1832 to help guide the ever-increasing water traffic.
Excitement surrounding the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago brought many new developments to the city, including the building of a new 48-foot lighthouse with attached housing for the keepers near the site of the original tower. In 1917 the lighthouse moved east of Navy Pier in 1917 to perch on a newly renovated breakwater to guide traffic around it. The Coast Guard automated the lighthouse's red beacon in 1979 and retained its original third order Fresnel lens.
Chicago Harbor Light earned a spot on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, earned designation as a Chicago Landmark in 2003.
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Excitement surrounding the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago brought many new developments to the city, including the building of a new 48-foot lighthouse with attached housing for the keepers near the site of the original tower. In 1917 the lighthouse moved east of Navy Pier in 1917 to perch on a newly renovated breakwater to guide traffic around it. The Coast Guard automated the lighthouse's red beacon in 1979 and retained its original third order Fresnel lens.
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Saturday, November 10, 2012
Lakefront Chicago
The city of Chicago lies in a broad plain which, hundreds of millions of years ago, was a great interior basin covered by warm, shallow seas. These seas covered portions of North America from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. One of these prehistoric proglacial lakes was Lake Chicago, the ancestor of what is now known as Lake Michigan, one of North America's five Great Lakes.
Lake Michigan is huge. With nearly 60,000 square kilometers, bigger in area than Croatia, Denmark or the Netherlands, it feels more like an ocean. On its own it would be the fourth largest freshwater lake in the world, but ombined with Lake Huron, which it is geographically a part of, it makes for the biggest freshwater lake on earth.
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Lake Michigan is huge. With nearly 60,000 square kilometers, bigger in area than Croatia, Denmark or the Netherlands, it feels more like an ocean. On its own it would be the fourth largest freshwater lake in the world, but ombined with Lake Huron, which it is geographically a part of, it makes for the biggest freshwater lake on earth.
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Wednesday, November 07, 2012
Chicago skyline from Millenium Park III
Left: The Legacy at Millennium Park (blue skyscraper)
Also known as: 21-39 South Wabash
Also known as: 52-64 East Monroe
77 West Wacker (smaller blue building)
Formerly: United Airlines Building
Formerly: R.R. Donnelley Building
Leo Burnett Building
35 West Wacker Drive
LaSalle-Wacker Building
221 North LaSalle Street
Pittsfield Building
55 East Washington Street
The Heritage at Millennium Park
130 North Garland Court
35 East Wacker Drive
Formerly: North American Life Building
Formerly: Pure Oil Building
Formerly: Jewelers Building
330 North Wabash
Formerly: One IBM Plaza
Formerly: The IBM Building
The Crain Communications Building
Also known as: Diamond Building
Formerly: 150 North Michigan Avenue
Formerly: Smurfit-Stone Building
Formerly: Stone Container Building
Formerly: Associates Center
Trump International Hotel and Tower
401 North Wabash
Carbide and Carbon Building
Also known as: The Hard Rock Hotel
One Prudential Plaza
Also known as: One Pru
130 East Randolph Street
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Also known as: 21-39 South Wabash
Also known as: 52-64 East Monroe
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Formerly: R.R. Donnelley Building
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Formerly: Pure Oil Building
Formerly: Jewelers Building
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Formerly: One IBM Plaza
Formerly: The IBM Building
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Formerly: Smurfit-Stone Building
Formerly: Stone Container Building
Formerly: Associates Center
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Carbide and Carbon Building
Also known as: The Hard Rock Hotel
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Also known as: One Pru
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Monday, November 05, 2012
Chicago skyline from Millenium Park
Far left: 311 South Wacker Drive
Also known as: The Wedding Ring Building
Also known as: The White Castle Building
311 South Wacker Drive, a 70-foot-tall, 65-foot-wide barrel which uses an octagonal main shaft clad in pink granite from Texas, is a worthy accompaniment to the Sears Tower next door. Think of it as the cute girl next door to the big brute looking down on her.
Lit up in white at night, and surrounded by four smaller and nearly identical forms - it's like a central diamond surrounded by accent diamonds in an engagement ring.
Left (blue): The New Roosevelt University Building
At 32 stories, this is the tallest educational building in Chicago and a prominent symbol of Roosevelt University in an area crowded with urban colleges of varying pedigrees. While its function is utilitarian, its form is certainly a statement by the University that it is a major player in midwestern education. The students who live and learn in this building can be proud of the structure.
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Center: CNA Center
It's not a massive structure by Chicago standards - just 44 stories - and as odd as the red color is, it's not the old colored skyscraper in Chicago.
Like a beauty queen it stands there among the other contestants beaming and waving. It's red color makes the building stand out from all of the other different buildings in the skyline.
Center (front): McCormick Building
Robert Hall McCormick built this building in 1910 directly across Michigan Avenue from Grant Park. It has the most beautiful lobby I've every seen, and it's almost all orignal.
The top six floors of this charming structure, a classic "turn of the century" (yes, that OTHER century), were gutted and re-built as condos in the late 90s.
Right: The Metropolitan Tower
Formerly: Britannica Center
Formerly: Continental National Insurance Company Building
Formerly: Straus Building
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Far right (small): Railway Exchange Building
At first glance, this is the prototypical Chicago commercial building, but this one is a little better than the rest. Covered in white terra cotta, it has some nice touches that make it stand out. Things like the portholes along the cornice to let natural light into upper level inner offices, and tall bay windows - the predecessors of today's premium corner offices.
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Also known as: The Wedding Ring Building
Also known as: The White Castle Building
311 South Wacker Drive, a 70-foot-tall, 65-foot-wide barrel which uses an octagonal main shaft clad in pink granite from Texas, is a worthy accompaniment to the Sears Tower next door. Think of it as the cute girl next door to the big brute looking down on her.
Lit up in white at night, and surrounded by four smaller and nearly identical forms - it's like a central diamond surrounded by accent diamonds in an engagement ring.
Left (blue): The New Roosevelt University Building
At 32 stories, this is the tallest educational building in Chicago and a prominent symbol of Roosevelt University in an area crowded with urban colleges of varying pedigrees. While its function is utilitarian, its form is certainly a statement by the University that it is a major player in midwestern education. The students who live and learn in this building can be proud of the structure.
The variations in glass color give some additional visual interest to what might otherwise be a simple funhouse mirror surface. The varying shades of blue "windows" are reminiscent of clouds against a blue sky. The sleek, undulating surface with its unusual overhangs is very appealing; it takes the Wabash Street architecture to a new level.
Center: CNA Center
It's not a massive structure by Chicago standards - just 44 stories - and as odd as the red color is, it's not the old colored skyscraper in Chicago.
Like a beauty queen it stands there among the other contestants beaming and waving. It's red color makes the building stand out from all of the other different buildings in the skyline.
Center (front): McCormick Building
Robert Hall McCormick built this building in 1910 directly across Michigan Avenue from Grant Park. It has the most beautiful lobby I've every seen, and it's almost all orignal.
The top six floors of this charming structure, a classic "turn of the century" (yes, that OTHER century), were gutted and re-built as condos in the late 90s.
Right: The Metropolitan Tower
Formerly: Britannica Center
Formerly: Continental National Insurance Company Building
Formerly: Straus Building
This is a building with a lot of classic archtiture details. Its interior is as interesting as its exterior.
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Far right (small): Railway Exchange Building
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