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The J. H. Hawes Elevator is a historic grain elevator located on 2nd Street in Atlanta, Illinois. The elevator was built in 1903 along the Illinois Midland Railroad; it was used to store locally farmed grain before the railroad shipped it to cities such as Peoria, Decatur, and Terre Haute, Indiana. Built by McIntyre and Wykle, the elevator is ...
The firm was established in Chicago by Lawrence Perkins (1907–1998) [1] and Philip Will Jr. (1906–1985). [2] Perkins and Will met while studying architecture at Cornell University.
The location selected for the building, a former parking lot, [1] would be part of the Eco-Commons, a larger public green space on the institute's campus. [4] The building would be designed to meet Living Building Challenge 3.1, [ 3 ] which, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution , would make it "the first major Living Building Challenge ...
Aspire Construction & Design has been named the CO—100 Top Honoree in the Micro-Business Leaders category. Here’s how this woman- and minority-owned commercial AEC firm has thrived.
Atlanta's public library program began in 1873. When the city built its library building in 1908, it did so through community support rather than receiving a grant from the Carnegie Foundation as most other communities did at the time. [2] A clock tower was added to the property in the 1970s. The Atlanta Museum formerly operated in the library ...
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Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The largest housing project in the United States, it consisted of 28 virtually identical high-rises, set out in a linear plan for two miles (3 km), with the high-rises regularly configured in a horseshoe shape of three in each block.
Truist Plaza is a 265.48 m (871.0 ft) 60 story skyscraper in downtown Atlanta.It was designed by John C. Portman Jr. of John Portman & Associates and built from 1989 to 1992.