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Architecture in Chicago We've selected what we feel are the key examples of Chicago Architecture. Buildings are mostly located in the city centre. We aim to include Chicago buildings / architectural projects that are either of top quality or interesting, or ideally both. We cover completed Illinois buildings, new building designs and architectural exhibitions. We also post architecture competitions across Illinois. We have 3 pages of Chicago Architecture selections with links to hundreds of individual project pages. Chicago Buildings : news + key projects Chicago Architecture : A-J (this page) Chicago Building Developments : K-Z Chicago Architecture Key Chicago Buildings + Projects, alphabetical: 77 West Wacker Drive Ricardo Bofill - 'Taller de Arquitectura photo from architects 77 West Wacker Drive   235 Van Buren, South Loop neighborhood Perkins+Will image from architects 235 Van Buren, Downtown Chicago   860-880 Lake Shore Drive Renovation Krueck & Sexton, Architects photo : William Zbaren 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments   Aqua Tower Studio Gang Architects picture from architects New Chicago Skyscraper design   Art Institute of Chicago Modern Wing Renzo Piano Building Workshop photo : Andrew Campbell Photography Art Institute of Chicago Building   Bienen School of Music, Evanston Campus Goettsch Partners image from architects Bienen School of Music Chicago   Burnham Pavilion Zaha Hadid Architects image © Michelle Litvin Burnham Pavilion   Burnham Pavilion UNStudio photo courtesy of Christian Richters Burnham Pavilion Design   Chicago DeCarbonization Plan Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture image © Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture Chicago Central Area DeCarbonization Plan   Chicago Navy Pier Competition Winner - James Corner Field Operations picture © Joe Lekas Chicago Navy Pier Competition   Claremont House Brininstool + Lynch photograph : Christopher Barrett, Hedrich Blessing Claremont House   Columbia College Media Production Center Studio Gang Architects photo Steve Hall © Hedrich Blessing Columbia College Media Production Center   The Gary Comer Youth Center building John Ronan Architects photo : Steve Hall of Hedrich Blessing Gary Comer Youth Center Chicago   Greenway Self-Park, River North HOK photo : Steve Hall / HOK Greenway Self-Park   Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park Gehry Partners, LLP picture © 2008 Gehry Partners LLP Jay Pritzker Pavilion Jewish Synagogue, Evanston, Illinois ross barney architects photo : Steve Hall © Hedrich Blessing Jewish Synagogue Chicago Buildings - No Images Major Chicago Architecture Projects, A-J, alphabetical: 111 South Wacker 2005 Goettsch Partners office tower: 53 storeys, 1.5 m sqft 155 North Wacker - Goettsch Partners 340 on the Park 2007 Solomon Cordwell Buenz 62 storeys Aon Center, 200 East Randolph Street Edward Durell Stone / Perkins + Will Aon Center Chicago Federal Center Mies van der Rohe, Architect Chicago Federal Center building Chicago Institute galleries 2007- wHY architecture Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center, 71 W. Van Buren St. - Harry Weese & Associates Chicago O'Hare International Airport - Part Redevelopment 2000-04 Murphy/Jahn Architects Crown Hall + IIT Masterplan Mies van der Rohe, Architect IIT Chicago building Dearborn Center Architect : Ricardo Bofill - 'Taller de Arquitectura Dearborn Center Fordham Spire - aka Chicago Spire : proposed skyscraper Santiago Calatrava Architects Chicago Spire set to be tallest tower in the USA Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio, Oak Park - Frank Lloyd Wright Frederick C. Robie House : see Robie House 1906 Frank Lloyd Wright Graduate School of Business - University of Chicago 2005 Rafael Viñoly Architects Harold Washington Library Center, 400 South State Street 1991 Hammond, Beeby & Babka with A. Epstein & Sons International Project director: Thomas Beeby $195m IBM Building, 330 North Wabash Avenue 1971 Mies van der Rohe, Architect with C. F. Murphy Associates IIT Student Housing, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2001-03 Murphy/Jahn Architects Illinois Blue Cross HQ 2006-10 Goettsch Partners 796 ft high 24 storeys added above existing 33 storey building, also by Goettsch Partners $270m, for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois Inland Steel Building, 30 W. Monroe 1956-57/58 Skidmore Owings Merrill Architects - Walter Netsch James R. Thompson Center, 100 W. Randolph Street 1985 Murphy/Jahn with Lester B. Knight & Associates John Hancock Center – ‘Big John’, 875 North Michigan Ave Skidmore, Owings and Merrill – SOM John Hancock Center : famous Chicago landmark More Chicago Architecture projects online soon

Chicago Skyscrapers

Chicago Building Photographs

photo © Joe Lekas

Chicago Architect

Skyscraper Conference Chicago

photo courtesy of Jan Klerks

Michael Reese Hospital Buildings
Walter Gropius

photograph © Grahm M. Balkany / Gropius in Chicago Coalition
Gropius in Chicago Coalition Protest

Chicago architecture - divided into historical buildings and contemporary buildings

Early 20th Century Chicago buildings

Chicago Water Tower : William W. Boyington
Montauk Building : Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root (Burnham and Root)
Monadnock Building : Burnham and Root
Home Insurance Building : Chicago School, William Le Baron Jenney
Reliance Building : Charles B. Atwood of Burnham & Root
Masonic Temple : Burnham and Root
World's Columbian Exposition : Daniel Burnham, director of Works
Chicago Library (now Chicago Cultural Center) : Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge

Mid-century Chicago buildings

Robie House : Frank Lloyd Wright
Chicago Theatre : Cornelius W. Rapp and George L. Rapp
Palmolive Building : Holabird & Root
Uptown Theatre : Cornelius W. Rapp and George L. Rapp

Contemporary Chicago architecture

Lake Shore Drive apartments : Mies van der Rohe
Inland Steel Building : Bruce Graham and Walter Netsch, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
330 North Wabash (formerly IBM Plaza) : Mies van der Rohe
Marina City : Bertrand Goldberg
Lake Point Tower : John Heinrich and George Schipporeit
Millennium Park : Frank Gehry, Kathryn Gustafson, Anish Kapoor, Jaume Plensa, et al
Willis Tower : Bruce Graham, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Seventeenth Church of Christ Scientist : Harry Weese
Trump International Hotel and Tower : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

Chicago Spire site contest : Chicago Architectural Club

Eli Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan
Zaha Hadid Architects

image from architects
Eli Edythe Broad Art Museum

Illinois Buildings

Farnsworth House

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