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Daniel Hudson Burnham FAIA (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban designer. A proponent of the Beaux-Arts movement, he may have been "the most successful power broker the American architectural profession has ever produced."
Union Station in Washington, D.C. Designed by Daniel Burnham and completed in 1907, it is considered the epitome of Burnham Baroque. [1]Burnham Baroque is an architectural style developed by American architect Daniel Burnham at the end of the 19th and start of the 20th century.
The Burnham Plan is a popular name for the 1909 Plan of Chicago coauthored by Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett and published in 1909. It recommended an integrated series of projects including new and widened streets, parks, new railroad and harbor facilities, and civic buildings.
The first large-scale elaboration of the City Beautiful occurred in Chicago at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.The planning of the exposition was directed by architect Daniel Burnham, who hired architects from the eastern United States, as well as the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, to build large-scale Beaux-Arts monuments that were vaguely classical with uniform cornice height.
Designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick P. Dinkelberg, and sometimes called, in its early days, "Burnham's Folly", it was opened in 1902. [8] The building sits on a triangular block formed by Fifth Avenue, Broadway , and East 22nd Street —where the building's 87-foot (27 m) back end is located—with East 23rd Street grazing the triangle's ...
Burnham, along with a designer from his firm, Pierce Anderson, [6] arrived in Manila on December 7, 1904, and studied the layout and the environment at the time of the cities of Manila and Baguio for almost a month. The two then went back to the United States where he worked on drawing out the plans for the two cities and completed it by June 1905.
Daniel H. Burnham and John W. Root, circa 1890. Burnham and Root was one of Chicago's most famous architectural companies of the nineteenth century. It was established by Daniel Hudson Burnham and John Wellborn Root. During their eighteen years of partnership, Burnham and Root designed and built residential and commercial buildings.
One of its expansions was designed by master architect Daniel Burnham. It contains the Wanamaker Organ, the largest functional organ in the world. In January 2025, Macy's announced that the Macy's store in the Wanamaker Building was closing in March 2025 as part of Macy's closing of 66 stores that were underperforming. [6]