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The architects, Holabird & Roche, used trademark long horizontal bay "Chicago windows" on the Marquette Building. [11] [12] These are large panes of glass flanked by narrow sash windows. The grid-like window frames and spandrels are facilitated by the steel structure which enables non-load-bearing masonry walls. The Marquette is 16 stories tall.
The building was designated a Chicago Landmark in 2000, [4] and it was added to the federal National Register of Historic Places in 2003. In 2001, the building was sold to developer Draper and Kramer who, with Booth Hansen Architects, converted it to residential use, with the first two floors dedicated to upscale office and retail space.
One North Wacker, UBS Tower is a 50-story (199 m (653 ft)) skyscraper at One North Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago, Illinois.The tower was built from 1999 to 2002 to accommodate Swiss investment bank UBS AG's Chicago headquarters.
The city and county jointly sponsored an architectural competition that Holabird & Roche won by unanimous vote. [12] Construction of the county building (east wing) began in 1905, and by 1907 some county offices were already beginning to move in. [12] Construction of city hall (the west wing) was delayed until 1909 because the city had to wait for the State to increase its borrowing authority ...
The building was originally built as a railway exchange for the Santa Fe railway.Burnham & Company had offices on the 14th floor. [7] Though the firm's successor, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, has moved, a number of architectural organizations still practice there, including the Goettsch Partners, VOA Associates, Harding Partners, and the Chicago offices of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and ...
1961 - The magnetopause, boundary between magnetosphere and the solar wind, is observed by Explorer 12. The measurements confirm predictions made in 1931 by Chapman and Ferraro. 1962 - In July, a U.S. H-bomb test ( Project Starfish ) above the central Pacific Ocean creates a radiation belt of high-energy electrons, parts of which remain until 1967.
The use of brushed stainless steel cladding reflects the corporation that commissioned the building as its headquarters, the Inland Steel Company. [1]The placement of all structural columns on the building's perimeter—and the consolidation of elevators and other service functions in a separate tower—allowed for a highly flexible interior floor layout with no interior columns. [1]
The general offices of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway were located here on the 2nd and 3rd floors, [2] as were the headquarters of the World's Columbian Exposition, on the 4th and 5th. [3] The Long Distance Telephone Company (Quincy Street side) allowed patrons the ability to telephone New York City, a novelty at the time.