Friday, November 09, 2012

Chicago skyline from Millenium Park IV

From left to right (the big guys only)
Trump International Hotel and Tower
401 North Wabash

One Prudential Plaza
Also known as: One Pru
130 East Randolph Street

Two Prudential Plaza
Also known as: Two Pru
180 North Stetson Avenue

The Aon Center
Formerly: Amoco Building
Formerly: Standard Oil Building

Blue Cross-Blue Shield Of Illinois Tower
Official name: Health Care Services Corporation Building
300 East Randolph Street

340 On The Park
340 East Randolph Street

Front:
Buckingham Fountain

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Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Chicago skyline from Millenium Park II

First row:

Left: The Metropolitan Tower
Formerly: Britannica Center
Formerly: Continental National Insurance Company Building
Formerly: Straus Building

Motorola: Railway Exchange Building
Official name: 224 South Michigan Avenue
Formerly: Santa Fe Building

Borg-Warner Building
200 South Michigan Avenue

Peoples Gas Company Building
Official name: 122 South Michigan
Formerly: The Gas Building
Formerly: Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company Building

Tall blue building - The Legacy at Millennium Park
Also known as: 21-39 South Wabash
Also known as: 52-64 East Monroe

77 West Wacker
Formerly: United Airlines Building
Formerly: R.R. Donnelley Building

Second Row:

Left from The Legacy: Mid-Continental Plaza
Also known as: The Park Monroe
Formerly: 55 East Monroe Building

Behind Motorola: Chase Tower
Formerly: Bank One Plaza
Formerly: First National Bank of Chicago Building

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Sunday, November 04, 2012

Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT)

One of the best examples of Art Deco is at the bottom end of the La Salle Street Corridor: The Chicago Board of Trade Building (CBOT) (141 W. Jackson Blvd.).

Outside and in it is the summit of Art Deco elegance, complete with a pyramidal roof crowned by an aluminum statue of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture.

Being the world's oldest futures and options exchange as well as a national landmark, the Board of Trade in Chicago is a must-see for any history buff, or anyone with interests in the history of the stock market.

Chicago Board of Trade - Christine Till Fine Art Photography

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Friday, November 02, 2012

Hilton Chicago and Blackstone Hotel

The Chicago Hilton and the Blackstone Hotel are two of the best hotels of all times with an enormous history.

Left: Hilton Chicago
Formerly: Chicago Hilton and Towers
Formerly: The Stevens Hotel

When the Stevens Hotel opened in 1927, the newspapers wrote of a new Versailles rising on South Michigan Avenue. The colossal building soared 28 stories and occupied an entire city block. With 3,000 guest rooms, it was the biggest hotel in the world, and with its brick-and-limestone walls, decorated inside with hand-painted frescoes, fine restaurants, exclusive shops, vast ballrooms, bowling alley, hospital, a special private room for pets, an 18 hole golf course with real grass on the roof, a 1,200 seat theatre with "talking motion picture" equipment, a three-story laundry, and 5 sub-basements, the most opulent. The Stevens could produce 120 gallons of ice cream per hour. No one had seen anything quite like it before.

Yet, just a few years later, the Stevens Hotel plunged into a disaster - the hotel went bankrupt, the State of Illinois charged its owners with financial corruption. One of them was crippled by a stroke; another committed suicide. In 1942, the hotel was requisitioned by the U.S. Army, and guest rooms became barracks, the Grand Ballroom a mess hall, and other rooms were turned into offices and training rooms. After the war, Conrad Hilton bought the former Stevens Hotel and named it for himself.

Few, if any, of the thousands who pass through the cavernous Chicago Hilton and Towers, as the Stevens is called today, know the dramatic episode of Chicago history that unfolded there. Completely renovated in the mid-eighties, at a cost of $185 million, the hotel still features the two-story entrance hall with grand staircases on either side that so astounded visitors in the Roaring Twenties. But the original 3,000 rooms have been consolidated to 1,544, so the hotel is no longer the biggest in the world. Still, for all the trouble and even tragedy that attended the its early years, the landmark has endured, vindicating the dream the Stevens family envisioned so many years ago.

Right: Blackstone Hotel Chicago
Opened April 16, 1910, and located at 636 South Michigan Avenue, in the heart of the city's arts and theater district - adjacent to the world class Millennium Park, The Blackstone represents yet another significant development milestone in the renaissance of Chicago's South Loop downtown.

The Blackstone was the temporary home of the rich and famous, the politically connected and kings and princes. It was, and is again, renowned the world over. In the early years of the twentieth century there were few hotels that could compare. Twelve presidents - from Taft to Carter - have stayed at the Blackstone, some at times of national crisis, e.g. John F. Kennedy learned of Cuba's nuclear capabilities while eating a bowl of chowder.

The nearly century-old 22-story Blackstone Chicago hotel, a work of art in itself, is now part of the Marriott Renaissance chain. It is one of the most history-rich hotel properties in the U.S.

Thursday, November 01, 2012

Art Deco Buckingham Fountain Chicago

Buckingham Fountain, officially known as the 'Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain' is one of Chicago's most popular landmarks. It is located in Grant Park at the center of a formally laid out garden. During the dedication in August of 1927, John Philip Sousa conducted while his band played "Pomp and Circumstance" before an audience of 50,000 people.

The fountain rises more than 7 meters high (23ft) and consists of 3 layers of basins surrounded by four pairs of bronze seahorses. Each sea horse symbolizes a state bordering Lake Michigan (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin) while the fountain represents the lake itself.

Chicago's landmark is considered one of America's finest fountains due to its Beaux-Arts-style landscape design, finely wrought bronze sculpture and innovative use of technology.

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Chicago - What a beautiful city

Right: Aon Center (Amoco Building, Standard Oil Building)

The Aon Center is the quiet, dignified supertall in the Chicago skyline. From a distance, the building feels like another boring grey 1970's stone block. To really appreciate it, you have to walk right up to it and crane your neck to see the top.
Just after the building was completed in 1973, its famed marble facade began to buckle. Stainless steel straps were wrapped around the building to keep any large chunks from falling off. From 1990 to 1992 the building's 43,000 marble cladding panels were replaced by white, two-inch-thick Mt. Airy granite panels at a cost of $80 million - half what it cost to build the tower in the first place. That left the owners with 5,900 tons of unwanted marble.

2nd from right: Two Prudential Plaza
At the time of completion in 1955 "2 Pru" was the world's second tallest reinforced concrete building and the first skyscraper erected in Chicago after WW II.
The distinctive shape features stacked chevron setbacks on the north & south sides, a sharp pyramidal peak rotated 45°, and an 80-foot spire. The building has a terraced one-acre plaza on its west side with fountains and landscaping.

3rd from right: One Prudential Plaza
One Prudential Plaza was the first high-rise office building completed in Chicago since the LaSalle Bank Building in 1934. It was built above and beyond office standards of the day. When the Prudential Building was finished in 1955, it had the highest roof in Chicago, included one of the largest parking facilities built within an office building in the world, and the tower featured the world's fastest elevators.
The Two Prudential Plaza is joined at the lobby level to the much older One Prudential Plaza.

For names and descriptions of its neighbors to the left please visit my image titled 'Chicago The Beautiful'

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Monday, October 29, 2012

Cloud Gate Millenium Park Chicago

"Chicago, the wonder city, has a new wonder." -Chicago Tribune, 18 July, 2004

Cloud Gate - referred to by locals as "The Bean", for obvious reasons - was the first public sculpture of Indian-born and London-based artist Anish Kapoor. He designed a stainless steel construction consisting of 168 stainless steel plates, each 1 cm (0.4 inch) thick and seamlessly welded together. Cloud Gate's seamless surface is the result of thousands of hours of polishing. The structure weighs 100 tons and measures 10 meters high and 20 meters wide (33 x 66 ft). People can walk through the 3.7 meter high central arch, where they can look up to the large 'dent' and see numerous distorted reflections of themselves.

When 'The cloud" was completely finished in May, 2006 its almost magical appeal became visible. Seamless and polished, it reflects and distorts the skyline of Michigan Avenue, the sky, and the people nearby, who always seem to have the urge to touch the sculpture's silvery surface.

What was once a gritty, blighted site in Chicago is now home to a glistening, cultural spectacle that delivers joy to its visitors. Cloud Gate instantly became an icon of Chicago, and an attraction that every visitor to the city wants to see.

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Chicago Crain Communications Building - former Smurfit-Stone

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?

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Old 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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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Chicago EL Train

The Loop (historically Union Loop, or commonly Loop) is the two mile circuit of elevated railroad that forms the hub of the 'L' rapid transit system in Chicago, Illinois. The surrounding area is also known as The Loop community area.

Though the distinction of operating the first elevated railway does not belong to Chicago (New York city's, opening in 1867, has that honor), Chicago did try many times to create such a service. With the first attempt in 1869, over 70 companies were created for the purpose of starting an elevated rail system between 1872 and 1900. The accolade of opening Chicago's first rapid transit line went to the Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad Company. It opened on 12 October 1897, providing direct service into the center of Chicago. By 1909, the city of Chicago enjoyed one of the best rapid transit systems in the world, providing reliable unified service to outlying communities and neighborhoods then in existence.

At the turn of the century the old elevated structures, some more than a century old, were being rebuilt, ensuring their survival well into the twenty-first century.

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Monday, October 22, 2012

Carbide and Carbon and Wrigley Building - Two Chicago Classics

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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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Chicago Theatre - This theater exudes class

The Chicago Theatre on State Street is a classic Chicago landmark. This beautiful, historic French Baroque building is in very good shape. Its prominent lit-up sign and postcard-worthy facade with the iconic Marquee as well as its wonderfully elegant interior: The word "Historic" doesn't even begin to cover this place!

It's hard to believe that this gorgeous old theater started its life as a movie palace, and that famous artist such as Benny Goodman and Frank Sinatra performed here - between movies! Stepping into the Chicago theater, you really feel the history of the place. The grand staircase, the vaulting ceiling, stained glass windows, ornate columns, the chandelier scream Paris, and the theater itself, ornate, with gold walls, red velvet curtains and scenes from mythology painted at the tops of the walls - they all send you back in time. The word that comes to mind when you walk in the spacious, well-finished entryway and then take a seat in the theatre in your plush chair is.. class.

I can understand how places like this helped people make it through the Depression!

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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Chicago State Street - That great street

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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Monday, October 15, 2012

Chicago - Goodman Theatre

The Goodman Theatre, recipient of a Special Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, is a leader in the American theater and internationally renowned for its artists, productions and educational programs. The theater was established in July 1922, by a gift of $250,000 from William and Erna Goodman to the Art Institute of Chicago for the purpose of building a theater to memorialize their son, Kenneth Sawyer Goodman. Before his death at the age of 35 in the influenza epidemic of 1918, Kenneth Sawyer Goodman had written, published and produced a number of plays in non-commercial productions in Chicago, and had expressed his vision of an ideal theater, one that would combine professional training with the highest possible performance standards. The new theater, encompassing a drama school and a professional acting company, opened its doors on October 20, 1925. In the mid-1980s, concerned about the adequacy of its aging theater behind the Art Institute, the Goodman began to explore the possibility of a new facility. In the early 90's, the idea of the North Loop Theatre District was born, and the new Goodman Theatre at the corner of Randolph and N. Dearborn opened in December, 2000. After 75 years of ups, downs, highs, and lows, the Goodman had entered the 21st century, and began writing a new chapter in its formidable history.

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