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The buildings and architecture of Chicago reflect the city's history and multicultural heritage, featuring prominent buildings in a variety of styles. Most structures downtown were destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 (an exception being the Water Tower ).
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Art Nouveau architecture in Chicago ... Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Chicago" ... Quadrangle Club (University of Chicago) Queen's Landing; R.
Tom Quad, Christ Church, Oxford Quadrangle of the University of Sydney. In architecture, a quadrangle (or colloquially, a quad) is a space or a courtyard, usually rectangular (square or oblong) in plan, the sides of which are entirely or mainly occupied by parts of a large building (or several smaller buildings).
The George Herbert Jones Laboratory is located at the northwest corner of the main quadrangle of the University of Chicago campus, between East 58th and 57th Streets. It is a four-story masonry structure, built in 1928-29 as facility and instructional space for the university's staff of research chemists and graduate students in chemistry. Room ...
Mitchell Tower (1901–1908), University of Chicago, Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, architects.Modeled after the Magdalen Tower (1492–1508), Oxford University (left). Princeton University Graduate College (1913), Ralph Adams Cram Willard Straight Hall (1925), Cornell University, William Adams Delano, architect Law Quadrangle (1923–33), University of Michigan, York and Sawyer Trinity College ...
In his 1974 monograph Burnham of Chicago, Thomas Hines makes a similar claim. [3] The Montauk is also the first building in the world where construction continued through the evenings, and allegedly was the first building in Chicago to not have winter stop construction efforts. [4]
In 1921–22, the Tribune Tower competition was held to determine the design for the new headquarters of the Chicago Tribune, a major American metropolitan newspaper.The competition garnered 260 entries, and the first place honor was awarded to a design by New York architects John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood.