Pictures can’t beat looking at a building in real life. Only that way do you experience the scale, grasp the context and get a feeling of the material. Regarding this sensation, Chicago beats everything. Walking through Chicago is an architectural time-travel. This is where the modern movement began and where you fathom the meaning of ‘timeless value’. It obviously lies in Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's ‘Less is More’ and in the visible diagonal bracing of the John Hancock Center. But also in The Rookery Building. More specifically in the spectacular effect of situating a horizontally orientated sky lit lobby in a vertically articulated city. The office building was designed by Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root in 1885. The lobby had been redesigned in 1905, by none other than Frank Lloyd Wright.
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