This is the ceiling in the library.
The pictures below are in the GAR section of the building.
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Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts
Wednesday
Chicago Cultural Center
The Intellectual Freedom Roundtable reception was held a the Chicago Cultural Center - the former Chicago Public Library. I was lucky to get to take a tour. Half of the building served as the library and the other half served as the office for the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR).
This is the ceiling in the library.
The pictures below are in the GAR section of the building.
This is the ceiling in the library.
The pictures below are in the GAR section of the building.
The Rookery
This is my favorite building. The lobby is the amazing part of the building and I haven't been able to go in it for several years (I have been there on weekends and the lobby is locked).
It is a Burnham and Root building. Root originally designed the lobby.
Frank Lloyd Wright remodeled the lobby in the early 1900s.
The lobby was re-investigated in the late 1980s during a restoration. Many Wright elements were maintained, but some early things were discovered and highlighted like the metal poles from Root's lobby (that are covered with marble - see the picture below). And many of the old floors were exposed and retained.
The lobby was re-investigated in the late 1980s during a restoration. Many Wright elements were maintained, but some early things were discovered and highlighted like the metal poles from Root's lobby (that are covered with marble - see the picture below). And many of the old floors were exposed and retained.
The El Tour through the Chicago Architecture Foundation
The El station at the Chicago Public Library
The Harold Washington Library Center - the Chicago Public Library.
Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago. The blank space in the middle is where the building's controls are located. The top of the building is a yard for prisoners.
Our tour guide for the El tour. I have taken other tours with the Chicago Architecture Foundation and she has been a guide. She is really good. She did a great job of providing a historical description of the El.
Quincy Station - restored.
Ceiling in the Quincy station.
This is from a station overlooking Wabash. The building on the left is a Sullivan building. The entire street is part of the historical register.
Since the street is on the historical register, the buildings can't be torn down and their facades cannot be altered. The buildings, however, have been radically changed. The modern glass building "behind" the historic buildings - actually comes out of the middle of the historic buildings. The historic buildings are the street level of this modern glass skyscraper.
The historic building look historic from the outside, but you can see by looking through the windows that these old facades hide a giant parking garage.
Trump Tower, down the El line.
This is another Sullivan building on Wabash.
The Harold Washington Library Center - the Chicago Public Library.
Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago. The blank space in the middle is where the building's controls are located. The top of the building is a yard for prisoners.
Our tour guide for the El tour. I have taken other tours with the Chicago Architecture Foundation and she has been a guide. She is really good. She did a great job of providing a historical description of the El.
Quincy Station - restored.
Ceiling in the Quincy station.
This is from a station overlooking Wabash. The building on the left is a Sullivan building. The entire street is part of the historical register.
Since the street is on the historical register, the buildings can't be torn down and their facades cannot be altered. The buildings, however, have been radically changed. The modern glass building "behind" the historic buildings - actually comes out of the middle of the historic buildings. The historic buildings are the street level of this modern glass skyscraper.
The historic building look historic from the outside, but you can see by looking through the windows that these old facades hide a giant parking garage.
Trump Tower, down the El line.
This is another Sullivan building on Wabash.
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Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago.
For the Picasso exhibit - Art Institute of Chicago.
Picasso Sculpture. I think the Picasso letters are there celebrating the exhibit at the Art Institute.
In the Chicago Public Library.
Sunday
Hating Chicago
For things I love about Chicago, you can follow this link and scroll through the good things.
But this past week I had to go to Chicago for a conference on higher education assessment. It was painful. When we landed, it was 20 below with the wind chill.
From Midway airport we drove to the western Chicago suburb of Lisle - nowhere - where we were stuck in a hotel conference center for 4 days.
The last day of the conference, a colleague and I cut out early and took the train downtown for a quick 3 hour visit to the Chicago Institute of Art. Going to the Institute was great. We were there for an exhibit of Edward Hopper's work. I also really enjoyed a photo exhibit called Girls on the Verge about girls entering their teenage years. It was a really intense exhibit.
Most of the pictures I took were blurry and bad - making me hate Chicago in the winter even more.
Lion - just outside the Art Institute on Michigan Avenue.
Below is a light in the Chicago Stock Exchange Room at the Institute.
Below is the detail of a teller window by Louis Sullivan.
Below is a Frank Lloyd Wright detail from the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan. The building was demolished in 1968.
But this past week I had to go to Chicago for a conference on higher education assessment. It was painful. When we landed, it was 20 below with the wind chill.
From Midway airport we drove to the western Chicago suburb of Lisle - nowhere - where we were stuck in a hotel conference center for 4 days.
The last day of the conference, a colleague and I cut out early and took the train downtown for a quick 3 hour visit to the Chicago Institute of Art. Going to the Institute was great. We were there for an exhibit of Edward Hopper's work. I also really enjoyed a photo exhibit called Girls on the Verge about girls entering their teenage years. It was a really intense exhibit.
Most of the pictures I took were blurry and bad - making me hate Chicago in the winter even more.
Lion - just outside the Art Institute on Michigan Avenue.
Below is a light in the Chicago Stock Exchange Room at the Institute.
Below is the detail of a teller window by Louis Sullivan.
Below is a Frank Lloyd Wright detail from the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan. The building was demolished in 1968.
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