Showing posts with label Open House Chicago 2013. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Open House Chicago 2013. Show all posts

Saturday, October 19, 2013

From St. James Chapel to Elks National Memorial, with a boathouse in between - Photos from Day One of Open House Chicago 2013

click images for larger view (recommended)
Stop One:  the over-the-top House of Blues, built in the theatre  buildingof Bertrand Goldberg's Marina City Complex.   Also open tomorrow, Sunday, October 20th from 9 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
 
 
Stop Two:  St. James Chapel at Archibishop Quigley Center.   1917, Steinbeck and McCarthy.  The 40-foot-high stained glass windows, by Robert Giles of the John Kinsella Company. are modeled after Sainte Chapelle in Paris.  Closed tomorrow, but free docuent-led chapel tours are offered every Saturday (Holiday weekends excluded) from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m.  There are also chapel concerts at 2:00 p.m. Saturday November 9, December 14, January 11 and February 8.
 
 
  
I just realized.  The open isn't my photo, it's from the Chicago Architecture Foundation.  So, that's why it's in focus.  I'm leaving it up with credit because it's better than anything I took.
 
 
 Stop Three: Gratz Center of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, by Gensler Architects.  Open Sunday 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Best Friends, Gary Lee Price

Buchanan Chapel
 Stop Four:  Fourth Presbyterian Church, 1914, Ralph Adams Cram and Howard van Doren Shaw.
 
 Intermission:  dedication of WMS Clark Park boathouse by Studio/Gang.  Our piece on the boathouse coming soon.  For now, check out Blair Kamin's review.
 
 Stop Five: Brewster Apartments, 1893, Enoch Hill Tumoch.  Open Sunday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
 Stop Six: Elks National Memorial, 1924, Egerton Swartwout.  Open Sunday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Bonus:  Commonwealth Promenade Apartments, 1953-1956, Mies van der Rohe.
Open House Chicago 2013 continues and concludes Sunday, October 20th, offering access to 150 iconic Chicago sites.

Friday, October 18, 2013

Saturday & Sunday: Open House Chicago 2013 gives you access to 150 ofChicago's greatest Places and Spaces

Saturday Update: 

photograph: Lynn Becker
11:00 a.m., Saturday, October 19th, Architect John Ronan will join Carl Giegold of Threshold Acoustics at the Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior, to discuss their design of the foundation's new building.  More special events here.
click images for larger view.  all images courtesy Chicago Architecture Foundation
Put on your running shoes and fill out our dayplan.  Open House Chicago is back for 2013.  This Saturday and Sunday, October 19th and 20th, this annual Chicago Architecture Foundation event gives you rare access to some of the greatest interiors in the city, at 150 locations from Rogers Park to South Shore and Pullman, to Garfield Park and North Lawndale, and all points in between.   The full guide ran in yesterday's Trib.  You can also download it here:
Perkins+Will offices
If you're an architecture buff, you not only get to see all the great places, but many of the places they were created.  Almost a third of the downtown locations are offices of leading Chicago architects, structural engineers and designers, including Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill architecture, ARUP, Gensler, Clayco and Forum Studio, Goettsch Partners, HOK,  Holabird and Root,IA Interior Architects,  Jahn,  JGMA, Nelson, Nagle Hartray Architecture, Perkins+Will, RTKL, SOM, Thorton Tomasetti, VOA Associates, and Wright Heerema Architects. 
St. James Chapel at Archbishop Quigley Center
You also have the chance to get inside many of the city's great places of worship, from Holy Name Cathedral, to Holy Cross Immaculate Heart of Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, Loop Synagogue, St. James Chapel at the former Quigley Preparatory Seminary, the Mosque Maryam, Fourth Presbyterian, St. Thompas the Apostle, St. John Cantius, Midwest Buddhist Temple St. Paul's in Pilsen, and more, including Burnham and Root's former Immanuel Presbyterian Church, now the Lin Shen Ching Tze Temple.
Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple (photograph:  Lynn Becker)
More?  How about the ornate lobby of the Civic Opera House, the Spertus Institute, the John Vinci/Mies van der Rohe Arts Club, John Ronan's Poetry Foundation, Henry Ives Cobb's Newberry Library, Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie and Emil Bach Houses.  Get inside Helmut Jahn's Campus Chiller Plant, the Brewster Apartments, the Elks National Memorial, Thalia Hall, and the Chelsea Hotel.
University of Chicago, South Campus Chiller Plant
You like a good beverage?  There's City Winery and the Goose Island Beer Company.  Ever wonder what goes on at those big concrete silos at Halsted and the River?  Check out the Prairie Material Concrete Production Facility.
Prairie Material Concrete Production Facility
We could go on, but there's only so much my laundry lists can convey.  To get the full picture - complete with great photographs of all of the 150+ sites - check out the official Open House Chicago website.  While the overall festival runs 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, be sure to check out the sites you really what to see.  Some has special hours.  Others are open only one of the two days.
original Sears Tower

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Tigerman, Adrian Smith, Dominque Perrault, Toyo Ito, Playboy Architecture, Open House Chicago, Edgar Allan Poe and much more - it's the October Calendar!

Stanley Tigerman receives AIA Chicago's Lifetime Achievement Award
Will we be adding more? You betcha, but right now, there's almost 60 great items on the just-published October Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

Things start fast and furious this week, with Adrian Smith talking Wednesday. the 2nd, about Supertall Towers and Green Cities at the Logan Center for the Arts. Also on Wednesday, Anthony Denzer is at CAF talking about his new book, The Solar House: Pioneering Sustainable Design and 6:00 p.m. at IIT, Christophe Cornubert of PUSH is in from L.A. to deliver a lecture at the McCormick Tribune Campus Center.

Architects? At IIT, at Crown Hall we've got Dominque Perrault  on Tuesday, the 8th, and Iñaki Alday, founder, Arquitectura y Paisaje, on Wednesday the 13th, Alphonse Sarthout and Hugo Haas of Ciguë Agency at the Alliance Française.

Monday the 14th, and 2013 Pritzker Prize Laureate Toyo Ito at the Art Institute on
Tuesday, the 15th. Ito will also participate, along with Yusaku Immura, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, at an Art Institute Public Forum, A Conservation on Beauty earlier in the day. Then, on Friday the 25th, Stanley Tigerman will receive AIA Chicago's Lifetime Achievement Award at the 58th Annual Designight, at Navy Pier.
Princeton's Beatriz Colomina's talks about Playboy
Architecture: 1953 - 1979 at the School of the Art Institute on Thursday the 10th, the same day that Tony Tasset of Eye fame is at Unity Temple in Oak Park.  On Thursday the 4th, the Graham is screening Drop City, a documentary about artists who created their dwellings from “the scrapheap of a wasteful society.” This Saturday the 5th, Hedrich-Blessing's Dave Burk will be leading an Architecture Digital Photography Workshop at the Chicago Architecture Foundation.
Open House Chicago is back for its third year.  The Chicago Architecture Foundation event  will give participants access to 150 buildings on Saturday the 19th and Sunday the 20th.

Jeffrey Boyer and Sachin Anan of dbHMS will be at the Chicago Center for Green Technology to talk about the Decarbonization Plan and Triple Net Zero Design of Nalanda University. CAF lunchtime on Wednesday the 16th, there'll be a presentation of Design Evanston's Jack Weiss, Stuart Cohen, Kris Hartzell, Heidi Hoppe and Laura Saviano on the new book, Evanston: 150 Years, 150 Places. The next week - same time, same place - Michael A. Hirsch of Pelli Clarke Pelli and John Culbert, Dean, will discuss their new Theatre School at DePaul University.

Meg Kindelin of Johnson Lasky discusses Highland's Park International Style Battledeck House at the Cultural Center for Landmarks Illinois on Thursday the 17th, the same day that Dianne Harris will be at the Graham in the evening discussing her new book, Little Houses: Race, Space, and the Ordinary Postwar Home, at the same time that Patti Philippon will talk about The House (Mark) Twain and (Louis Comfort) Tiffany Built at the Driehaus Museum. Also at the Driehaus on Thursday, the 29th, architect Richard Economakis will discuss The Civic Hall and New Town of Cayalá, Guatemala.


Architect and urban designer Marshall Brown will talk about The Speculative City at the American Planning Association Tuesday, the 22nd. Also on the 22nd, Steven Monz talks about the Architecture of Benjamin Marshall at the Glessner House Museum, where, just in time for Halloween, the museum sponsors its 27th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Readings on Saturday the 26th.

On October 24th and 25th, there's not one, but two, two-day Facades+Performance at IIT, and Building for Sustainability at the Center for Green Technology. On the 25th, Openlands has its 50th Anniversary Luncheon at the Hilton Chicago.   On Monday the 28th at the House of Blues, there'll be a special Pecha Kucha Chicago/Chicago Tribune Photojournalism, featuring the work and stories of a dozen photojournalists.
symposiums:

As you might imagine, these are just some of the highlights.  You can check them all out on the October 2013 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.