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Essential Architecture- Chicago
Loop South Inland Steel Building |
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architect |
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill |
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location |
30 W. Monroe St. |
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date |
1956-57 |
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style |
International Style |
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construction |
steel and glass |
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type |
Office Building |
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This is one of the defining commercial high-rises of the post-World War II
era of modern architecture. The use of stainless steel cladding is an
eloquent testimony to the corporation that commissioned the building as
its headquarters. The placement of all structural columns on the
building's perimeter — and the consolidation of elevators and other
service functions in a separate tower — allowed for a highly flexible
interior floor layout. It was the first skyscraper to be built in the
Loop following the Great Depression of the 1930s. Its principal
designers were Bruce Graham and Walter Netsch of the SOM architecture
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links |
With special thanks to the City of
Chicago website,
www.egov.cityofchicago.org , for much of the info on this page.
Photos copyright City of Chicago. |
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