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[4] [6] Preservationists and prominent architects (including at least six Pritzker Prize winners) had called on Northwestern and the City of Chicago to save the building, [9] appealing to Chicago's "global reputation as a nurturer of bold and innovative architecture". Jeanne Gang presented a reuse design incorporating the building into a ...
77 W. Wacker is one of the most prominent examples of postmodern architecture in the city of Chicago. [18] The facade consists of glass surfaces framed in Portuguese white granite, with the dividers between the different floors linked by columns. The top floor is shaped like a Greek pediment. The ground floor houses a 59-foot-high (18 m) atrium ...
Postmodern architecture is a style or movement which emerged in the 1960s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the international style advocated by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock. [1]
The James R. Thompson Center (JRTC), under reconstruction as Google Center or Googleplex Chicago and originally the State of Illinois Center, is a postmodern-style building designed by architect Helmut Jahn, located at 100 W. Randolph Street in the Loop district of Chicago.
The Chicago Seven was a first-generation postmodern group of architects in Chicago. The original Seven were Stanley Tigerman , Larry Booth , Stuart Cohen , Ben Weese , James Ingo Freed , Tom Beeby and James L. Nagle .
Postmodern architecture in Washington (state) (3 P) Pages in category "Postmodern architecture in the United States" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
A Chicago-area woman with terminal cancer has opened her home to Venezuelans previously sleeping on the floor of a nearby police station.
In the 21st century, Chicago has become an urban focus for landscape architecture and the architecture of public places. 19th-20th century Chicago architects included Burnham, Frederick Olmsted, Jens Jensen and Alfred Caldwell, modern projects include Millennium Park, Northerly Island, the 606, the Chicago Riverwalk, Maggie Daley Park, and ...