ARCHITECTURE SKETCHING TOUR GRANT PARK: MICHIGAN & CONGRESS PRESENTED BY JOANN SONDY
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Transition of city following Great Fire 1871 Pine Street to Michigan Ave (Historic District) Grant Park Development & History
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. – Frank Gehry (c) 2016 ArchiSketch Chicago developed by Joann B Sondy | Creative Aces Corp.
ArchiSketch Chicago Workshop adapted for Urban Sketchers Chicago 2016 Seminar
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Chicago Club Van Buren Metra Arch/Entrance Fine Arts Building Auditorium Building (Roosevelt University) (include Congress Hotel and Streetwall) Bowman & Spearman Buckingham Fountain Standing Lincoln, N. Presidents’ Court Strauss & Railway Exchange Return to American Academy of Art
Walking route ~2.5 miles. Accessible via public transit/parking. Walking distance to washrooms and restaurants. (c) 2016 ArchiSketch Chicago developed by Joann B Sondy | Creative Aces Corp.
MEET-N-GREET @ AAA Chicago Club (Van Buren & Michigan Ave.) • • • • • • • • • • • •
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1930 Granger & Bollenbacher Romanesque Rivival Masonry load-bearing Red granite, pressed brick, and bronze 2-story base Top floor loggia w/ collanade Van Buren = Entrance Surviving Van Buren facade from previous building Chicago Academy of Arts (now AIC) Private, exlusive and EXCLUSIVE Founded 1869 “100” business leaders 140 years old Strict NO MEDIA policy
TIMING: Up to 10 minutes/cross Michigan to Metra Entrance (c) 2016 ArchiSketch Chicago developed by Joann B Sondy | Creative Aces Corp.
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2001 / Gift of Chicago Club
Replica of famous Paris subway arch by Hector Guimand (1900) Paris is Chicago’s sister city – many references Art Nouveau–decorative art Ideas: natural, modernizing design, escape historical styles Popular at urn of 20th century Prominent in Europe, limited in USA Faded at onset of World War I Art Deco is Art Nouveau’s successor
TIMING: Up to 10-12 minutes/3-5 minutes walk to next location. Stay on east side of Michigan Ave. (c) 2016 ArchiSketch Chicago developed by Joann B Sondy | Creative Aces Corp.
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Michigan Avenue “Cliff” between Van Buren & Congress (Viewed from east side of Mich. Ave) •
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Introduction. Development of a commercial city during 19th century. Formerly mansions lined Pine Street Michigan Historic Boulevard District, a historically landmarked section of Michigan Avenue along Grant Park. Most of the buildings constructed 1832-1930, many are also landmarked, locally and nationally.
TIMING: Up to 40-45 minutes for 3 buildings. 5-7 minutes walk to next location (c) 2016 ArchiSketch Chicago developed by Joann B Sondy | Creative Aces Corp.
Chicago Club Fine Arts Auditorium Building
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Auditorium Building
Fine Arts
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Chicago Club
FINE ARTS BUILDING 1885 - Solon Beman All Passes Only Art Remains • Formerly Studebaker Carriage Company horse buggies assembled/showroom (1896) then automobile manufacturer • Solon Beman was Pullman’s architect • Annex Design added 1896 and second addition in 1898 • Chicago landmark 1978/Nat’l 1975 • 10 stories, 135 feet (originally 8) • Masonry load-bearing • Red Granite and gray limestone • Design influenced by H.H. Richardson rusticated Romaneque • Charles C Curtis, publisher & developer turned the building into arts center • Home to many renowned artist and institutions. •
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Loradeo Taft, sculptor William Denslow, illustrator – Wizard of Oz Harriet Monroe’s Poety Magazine Women’s Suffragette Movement Frank Lloyd Wright designed bookstore Theater & Venetian Court
TIMING: (c) 2016 ArchiSketch Chicago developed by Joann B Sondy | Creative Aces Corp.
AUDITORIUM BUILDING (1889)
Dankmar Adler & Louis Sullivan Congress (Wabash > Michigan)
• An anchor of South Loop is a reminder of how multi-use buildings have been incorporated into Chicago, which has seen massive change since 1871 • Mixed is the metaphor for the Auditorium • Mixed styles from base to top • $3.2 MILLION / 5 YRS / 64,000 sq ft • Mixed use of building materials • Example of how post-Fire construction pushed the limits of the environment, building upward • Significance: acoustic engineering of Adler and architectural styling by Sullivan • Commissioned by Chicago Civic Opera, Ferdinand Peck, to bring “culture” to a rapidly growing industrial city • One of the first buildings equipped with air conditioning, 1-4th floors
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• Building was cut away to when Congress was widened, 1952 and created a pedestrian arcade • Fully restored, now owned by Roosevelt University • US National Register of Historic Places, US National Historical Landmark, Chicago Landmark, Michigan Boulevard District
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BOWMAN & SPEARMAN (1928)
Ivan Mestrovic (Croatia) • • • • • • • • • •
Commerate Native Americans and symbolizes the struggles to settle Captures the vitality of the City En guard entering Grant Park Installed 1928 Bronze 17 ft tall Weapons deliberately NOT cast Mestrovic, artist-in-residence Syracuse University and Notre Dame RAILROAD TRACK: METRA’S ELECTRIC DIVISION. Formerly, Illinois Central Railroad.
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GRANT PARK – OVERVIEW “shall be reserved for ALL time for public square, accessible at all times to the people” • Chicago’s “Front Yard” • 319 acres, includes Millennium Park • Features: Buckingham Fountain, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, Petrillo & Pritzker music shells. • Named for President Ulysses S. Grant • Developed as one the city’s first parks and expanded through land reclamation • Borders: Randolph @ North, Roosevelt @ South, Michigan @ West, Lake Michigan @ East • Performance venues, gardens, public art, sporting and boat harbor facilities. • Based on plan designed by Olmsted Brothers, who did NYC Central Park, fashion after Versailles • Centerpiece is Clarence Buckingham Fountain, built in 1927, financed by his sister as a memorial
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CLARENCE F. BUCKINGHAM FOUNTAIN (1927) Marcel Francois Loyau ~ sea horses Edward H. Bennet ~ monument • Centerpiece of Grant Park—“Chicago’s Front Yard”, Kate Sturges Buckingham dedicated the structure to the people of Chicago in 1927 in memory of her late brother, Clarence, donating $1 million for the Fountain. • Edward H. Bennett designed the monument • French sculptor Marcel Loyau and engineer Jacques H. Lambert. • Inspired by the Latona Basin at Versailles, the structure is composed of four basins clad in elaborately carved granite and pink Georgia marble. • Symbolizes Lake Michigan’s enormity/size. • Art Deco style sea horses representing the four states that border Lake Michigan • Manually operated by two engineers (12 hr shifts) for decades. Evening light show automated in 1968. • Water manaully controlled until 1980. For a time the computer monitoring system was in Atlanta, now Arlington Hgts.
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THREE PUMPS: • #3: 75 horsepower for 1,600 gal of water/minute • #2: 190 horsepower for 5,500 gal of water/minute • #1: 250 horsepower for 7,000 gal of water/minute 134 jets, central jet to produce a 150-foot geyser • Water capacity = 1.5 million gallons. Approximately 14,100 gallons of water per minute conveyed through 134 jets. Water is re-circulatedBottom pool diameter = 280 feet
TIMING: Up to 40-45 minutes/5-7 minutes walk to next location
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Chicago Hilton & Towers
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PRESIDENT’S COURT-NORTH SITTING LINCOLN • • • • • • •
1926 sculptor: Augustus Saint-Gaudens Bronze & Granite base
Cast in 1908, was displayed in New York and San Franciso Sense of loneliness that burdened the president during Civil War Lincoln is the only president represented in President’s Court Augustus Saint-Gaudens - one of America’s greatest sculptors Used life masks of Lincoln’s hands and face taken by Chicago sculptor Leonard Volk five years before the president’s death Standing LIncoln in Lincoln Park
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SANTA FE (1904)
D.H. Burnham & Co.
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• Railway Exchange, main offices for several railroad companies • Chicago was THE HUB • Pollution - Soot - Noise • Culmination of Burnham’s neo-Classical style • Steel frame + terra cotta + glass curtain wall • Oriel windows, arched entrances • 1909 Plan of Chicago • World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and overflowing popularity of neo-Classical (Beaux Arts) style
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METROPOLITAN TOWER 1924 | Graham Anderson Probst White • • • • • • • •
Metal frame, limstone cladding First building designed adhering to 1923 Zoning Ordinance Setback @ height of 260 ft Originally Strauss Buidling, then Britannica Center Banking Hall and Investment Banker Legend is that Strauss’ activities may have directly triggered the 1929 stock market crash Rooftop = beehive fashioned after ancient Greek tomb. 4 bison heads on a ‘ziggurat’: thrift, industry, strength and city
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URBAN SKETCHERS SEMINAR July 9-10, 2016 Architecture Sketching Tour
JOANN SONDY joann@creativeaces.com mobile: 231-633-0945 joannsondy.com (c) 2016 ArchiSketch Chicago developed by Joann B Sondy | Creative Aces Corp.