AIA Guide to Chicago

AIA Guide to Chicago

Language: English

Pages: 568

ISBN: 0252079841

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


An unparalleled architectural powerhouse, Chicago offers visitors and natives alike a panorama of styles and forms. The third edition of the AIA Guide to Chicago brings readers up to date on ten years of dynamic changes with new entries on smaller projects as well as showcases like the Aqua building, Trump Tower, and Millennium Park.
 
Four hundred photos and thirty-four specially commissioned maps make it easy to find each of the one thousand-plus featured buildings, while a comprehensive index organizes buildings by name and architect. This edition also features an introduction providing an indispensable overview of Chicago's architectural history.

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related to the Francis Scott Key School in the Austin neighborhood. 28 Richard F. Conway House 6200 N. Sheridan Rd. 1906, WILLIAM CARBYS ZIMMERMAN 29 Berger Park South Mansion (Joseph Downey House) 6205 N. Sheridan Rd. 1906, WILLIAM CARBYS ZIMMERMAN 1988, RENOVATION, CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT John Gauler Houses 30 North Lakeside Cultural Center (Samuel H. Gunder House) 6219 N. Sheridan Rd. 1910, MYRON H. CHURCH 1988, RENOVATION, ROULA ASSOCS. ARCHITECTS AND SIMON & CO. This prestigious

Ave. EARLY 1870S, ARCHITECT UNKNOWN 1914, REMODELING, NIELS BUCK Ridge Ave. follows the still-discernible contour of an ancient beach. Because the lower land to the east was frequently swampy, many of the first houses in Rogers Park were built on this street. A few cottages, some from the 1870s, remain. This one was remodeled in the Craftsman style popular before World War I. Characteristics include the exposed rafters under overhanging gables, bands of casement windows, and wood strips

sheet metal under the canopy, though subsidiary, is as fine and fluid as Sullivan’s contemporaneous work on the Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Building. The Eastern Orthodox central plan creates an intimate interior; the congregation stands in a square space surmounted by a painted octagonal dome. The sacred apse is screened from view by an elaborate iconostasis. Although most of the decoration is stenciled, it is not by Sullivan. 6 St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital 2233 W. Division St. 1975, PERKINS &

hospital here in 1874 as an anchor institution. A replacement hospital was completed in 2002 just to the south, and plans were announced to demolish this classical revival building. A furor ensued, and in 2010 the county agreed to pursue alternatives for adaptive reuse. 63 John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County 1901 W. Ogden Ave. 2002, CCH DESIGN GROUP (LOEBL SCHLOSSMAN & HACKL, MCDONOUGH ASSOCS., GLOBETROTTERS ENGINEERING CORPORATION, HDR) An assortment of modules in handsome materials form

Park. In 1973, as Frank Lloyd Wright’s Francisco Terrace apartments in Chicago were about to be demolished, quick action on the part of real estate agent John Baird, attorney and historian Devereux Bowly, and architect Ben Weese salvaged the terra-cotta arch, cornice, decorative panels, and other ornamentation. Adapting Wright’s plan, Weese created a courtyard complex of seventeen town houses, replicating the original massing and details. The entry arch forms a beautiful terminus to Linden Ave.

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