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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 4 pages of Chicago Architecture selections with links to hundreds of individual project pages. Chicago Buildings : news + key projects Chicago Architecture : A-E (this page) Chicago Building Designs : F-J Chicago Building Developments : K-Z Chicago Architecture Key Chicago Buildings, 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   Arcus Center Kalamazoo College, Michigan Design: Studio Gang Architects image from architects Arcus Center Kalamazoo College   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   Chicago Architecture Designs - No Images Major Chicago Architecture Projects, A-J, alphabetical: 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments 1951 Mies van der Rohe, Architect Key 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 More Chicago Architecture projects online soon Chicago Office Buildings

Illinois Architecture

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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