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The Chicago Department of Buildings approved a permit for demolition at the James R. Thompson Center affecting the iconic building’s interior and facade. The Helmut Jahn-designed Thompson Center ...
The James R. Thompson Center (JRTC), under reconstruction as Google center or Googleplex Chicago, 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. Designed around a post-modernist rotunda, it was built to house offices ...
July 28, 2022 at 10:00 AM. After years of failed efforts that spanned multiple administrations, the state has finalized the sale of the controversial James R. Thompson Center in Chicago to a ...
Augusta-based Thompson Building and Wrecking was hired by the city to demolish the former Joint Law Enforcement Center in May 2021. The firm’s price of $1.5 million is the amount voters approved ...
Voluntary building demolition is the decision by either the landowner or a higher government body to demolish a structure for any number of reasons, ranging from severe structural damage to the redevelopment of the land the building sits upon. Involuntary (or unplanned) building demolitions, such as the collapse of a building during a severe ...
Helmut Jahn (January 4, 1940 – May 8, 2021) was a German-American architect, known for projects such as the Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany; the Messeturm in Frankfurt, Germany; the Thompson Center in Chicago; One Liberty Place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Suvarnabhumi Airport, in Bangkok, Thailand, among others.
Despite civic efforts to preserve it, that building was ultimately demolished. In 2016–2017, Nathan Eddy directed the film Starship Chicago. This documentary is about the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago, which was threatened with demolition at the time. That building was designed by Helmut Jahn. [4]
Aug. 10—POTTSVILLE — The developer who announced grand plans for the Thompson Building, the city's "first skyscraper," when he bought it in 2021 hasn't paid property taxes on the site since ...