Chicago Architecture : Information

Major Chicago Architecture Projects, 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 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments 1951 Mies van der Rohe, Architect photo : William Zbaren 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Aqua Tower - proposal 2008- Studio Gang Architects Chicago tower Art Institute of Chicago Modern Wing 2007-09 Renzo Piano Building Workshop Art Institute of Chicago Chicago Central Area DeCarbonization Plan 2010- Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture Chicago Central Area DeCarbonization Plan Chicago Federal Center 1974 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 Claremont House 2007 Brininstool + Lynch Claremont House Crown Hall + IIT Masterplan 1940- Mies van der Rohe, Architect IIT Chicago building Fordham Spire - aka Chicago Spire : proposed skyscraper 2006-10 [currently delayed, 2008] 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 Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park - Gehry Partners, LLP Millennium Park Chicago John Hancock Center – ‘Big John’, 875 North Michigan Ave 1970 Skidmore, Owings and Merrill – SOM John Hancock Center : famous Chicago landmark Marina City – ‘Corncob towers’, 300 N. State St 1967 Bertrand Goldberg Mixed-use development McCormick Tribune Campus Center - IIT, 3201 South State St 2003 Rem Koolhaas Architects / OMA McCormick Place West - Expansion 2007 Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates $882m Millennium Park Music Pavilion and Great Lawn: see Jay Pritzker Pavilion link above Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 220 East Chicago Avenue 1996 Josef Paul Kleiheus Northwestern University - Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music 2008- Goettsch Partners, Inc. Northwestern University building Office Tower, Chicago 1997 Goettsch Partners 446ft high Prentice Women’s Hospital 1974 Bertrand Goldberg Associates The Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts 2007-11 Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects International Architecture Competition winners Shortlist: Hans Hollein; Fumihiko Maki and Associates; Morphosis; Studio Daniel Libeskind; Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects Approx. cost: $100m For University of Chicago Richard J. Daley Center 1965 C. F. Murphy Associates with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill – SOM + Loebl, Schlossman & Bennett Robie House, 5757 Woodlawn Avenue 1906 Frank Lloyd Wright For bicycle / motorcycle manufacturer Frederick C. Robie The University of Chicago have owned the Robie House since 1963 Sears Tower, Wacker Drive 1973 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Sears Tower Sears Tower modernization and hotel 2009- Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture Sears Tower modernization Sixteen at Trump Hotel 2008 Ivanka Trump with Valerio Dewalt Train Associates Soldier Field football stadium - Wood + Zapata with Lohan Caprile Goettsch Associates SOS Children's Villages : Lavezzorio Community Center 2008 Studio Gang Architects SOS Children's Village Chicago The Sporting Club at Illinois Center 1987-90 Kisho Kurokawa Trump International Hotel and Tower - 92 storeys: 2nd tallest skyscraper in USA University of Chicago Hospitals - New Pavilion 2010 Rafael Vinoly Architects image from Rafael Viñoly Architects 220107 1,080,000 sqft Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Condominium Tower - proposal - Destefano and Partners 335m high, 100 storeys - proposed Zero-energy tower - proposal 2007- Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture More Chicago Architecture projects online soon