The City of “Big Shoulders”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
McCormick Place Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Federal Plazavan der Rohe & Calder
• Federal Plaza
Ludwig Mies van
Der Rohe
Lake Shore Drive Apartment Building Architect: Mies van der Rohe 1948 - 1951
Farnsworth House“less is more”
Lake Point Tower
Architects: Schiopporeit & Heinrich
Graham, Anderson, Probst, & White 1969
InlandSteel Building
Architects: Skidmore, Owings& Merrill 1956 - 1957
John Hancock Center
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill 1969
Sears Tower
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill 1979 - 1974
Richard M. Daley Center
Architects: C.F. Murphy & Assoc.
1963 - 1965
Xerox Center
Architects:Helmet Jahn
1980
James R. Thompson Center
Architects: Helmut Jahn & Richard Murphy
1984
James R.
Thompson
Center
Street entrance intoatrium.
Monument with Standing Beast by Jean Dubuffet - Chicago, Illinois
State of Il Bldg & L stop at IITHelmut Jahn
State of Illinois Building – James Thompson Center
Thompson Center
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United Airlines Terminal
Achitect: Helmut Jahn 1985 - 1988
Chicago O’Hare Airport
Dirk Lohan
First National BankPlaza- Bank One
C.F. Murphy & Assoc.
Murphy/Jahn
Marina City Towers by Bertrand Goldberg
• The building of the Marina towers
John Burgee Architects with Philip Johnson. 190 South
LaSalle Street. Chicago. 1987.
Millennium Park
• Band Shell by Frank Gehry• The “Bean” or Cloud Gate by Anish
Kapoor• The Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa • Lurie Gardens
The new Modern Wing at the Art Institute of
Chicago by Renzo Piano
The “Spire” by Santiago Calatrava