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Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (S.O.M.). John Hancock Center. Chicago

- September 30, 2009. 12:26

SOM’s website states that the John Hancock Center is the “world’s first mixed-use (hybrid) high-rise”. We do not know if this assertion is in fact accurate, but we do not really mind. There are some other facts we find more relevant: this 433 metres, 100-storey tower contains offices, retail, housing, parking, a TV and radio broadcast facility and a public observatory with the best views of Chicago (we include some of them in the post).
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Archived in: Javier Arpa Chicago Hybrid buildings Mix of Uses John Hancock Center

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Millenium Park. Chicago

a+t - September 22, 2009. 12:38

Millenium Park is a space for art, music and architecture, opened in 2004, that resulted from blending the city of Chicago with a group of well-known architects and artists. The total area of 9,9 hectares along North Michigan Avenue host works such as the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, by Frank Gehry, The Crown Fountain, by Jaume Plensa, the Lurie Garden, by Gustavson Guthrie Nichol Ltd, Piet Oudolf and Robert Israel, or the popular Cloud Gate, by Anish Kapoor. More recently, the Burnham Pavili.
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Archived in: Public spaces a+t Gehry, Frank Chicago Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Landscaping Millenium Park

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Bertrand Goldberg. Marina City. Chicago

a+t - January 9, 2009. 13:40

Few Chicago buildings were as innovative in design or had as great an impact on their environment as Marina City. Marina City stood out immediately among Chicago’s many architectural highlights and was for a long time one of the most photographed buildings in the city.
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Archived in: The City Collective housing a+t Javier Arpa Chicago Hybrid buildings Goldberg, Bertrand Marina City

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God, money and details

Javier Mozas - October 2, 2008. 16:10

In the Students’ Center of the IIT (published in a+t 23. New Materiality I), Rem Koolhaas has hacked off the rosy cheeks of Mies, soiling the candor of Augustinian truth with abject materials. In an interview he states that here he doesn’t use a wide range of materials. In the end, he says, he uses a limited palette, just like Mies.
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Archived in: Javier Mozas Mies van der Rohe Chicago OMA a+t 23. New Materiality I

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MIES-OMA. IIT Chicago

- October 2, 2008. 12:45

In his first project in America, Mies puts his Puritan philosophy to practice (see The moral condition of materials, by Javier Mozas) and, adapting to the urban grid of Chicago, he lays out a campus split into two by the elevated tracks of the Chicago L.
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Archived in: The City Civic Facilities Javier Arpa Koolhaas, Rem Mies van der Rohe Chicago OMA a+t 23. New Materiality I IIT Chicago

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Studio Gang Architects. Aqua Tower. Chicago

- June 3, 2008. 15:55

I took a few pictures of the Chicago Aqua Tower building (see Density projects), a skyscraper that includes a hotel, apartments, luxury homes, offices and public parking. This hybrid programme was developed on the 82 floors of the tower, the large base of two storeys above ground level, and five basement levels.
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Archived in: Collective housing Density Javier Arpa Chicago Studio Gang Density projects Aqua Tower

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Miestakes

- May 29, 2008. 17:44

Article written by Rem Koolhaas, published in a+t 23. New Materiality I

Trouble. According to statistics, a student and his or her parents decide, within five seconds of arrival, whether to apply to a given university or not.
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Archived in: Civic Facilities Koolhaas, Rem Mies van der Rohe Chicago Rem Koolhaas a+t 23. New Materiality I

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The Architecture of Value Engineering

- May 27, 2008. 15:54

Article written by Aaron Betsky

The new Student Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology marks the transition from the era of “God is in the detail” to that of “No money, no details”. From Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s fetishism about the appearance of construction and its absolute relationship to the modulation of spatial relations we have arrived at Rem Koolhaas’ desire to make buildings that are appropriate and critical condensers of existing technologies and social relations into spaces so complex that they cannot be defined in static terms and planes that graphically represent those enabling conditions.
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Archived in: Civic Facilities Koolhaas, Rem Mies van der Rohe Aaron Betsky Chicago a+t 23. New Materiality I

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