Frank Lloyd Wright completed this house/studio for his new family in 1889, before he developed his Prairie Style architecture. Nestled in the comfortable neighborhood Oak Park, Chicago, this historic building speaks of the American dream of family homes in a …
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One of Frank Gehry’s most outstanding projects, the Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago’s Millennium Park peels out in billowing sheets of shining steel into an open grassy audience with a canopy of ghost structure overhead. It has seating for 4,000 …
Another part of Millennium Park, the Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa completed in 2004. Twin fifty foot granite towers echo the skyscrapers at the wall edge of the city as it approaches the lake. LED lights display human faces, sometimes …
Here’s the McCormick Tribune Campus Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology, OMA’s first project in the United States. The building makes special tribute to Mies van der Rohe, who was the head of IIT’s architecture program and designed …