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Chicago Architecture : Information

Key Contemporary Developments in Illinois, United States of America



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
860-880 Lake Shore Drive Chicago
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
University of Chicago building
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






Chicago Skyscrapers

Skyscraper Conference Chicago
Chicago Skyscrapers
photo courtesy of Jan Klerks

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

Michigan Building : Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum by Zaha Hadid Architects

Illinois Buildings

Farnsworth House

Hans Hollein - Education: Illinois Institute of Technology, USA: 1959



 
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