Showing posts with label CHICAGO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CHICAGO. Show all posts
Wednesday, 2 January 2013
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Sofitel Chicago Water Tower Hotel Video Clips. Duration : 4.30 Mins.
September 23-26, 2012 Sofitel Chicago Water Tower provides four-star downtown Chicago hotel accommodations minutes from the Magnificent Mile, Navy Pier, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Michigan and upscale boutiques. Designed by the French architect Jean-Paul Viguier, the downtown Chicago hotel is a 32-floor prism of glass, boasting 415 rooms, including 33 luxurious suites. Embrace modern design and rich architectural legacy at one of the best downtown Chicago Illinois hotels. From: timvp.com
September 23-26, 2012 Sofitel Chicago Water Tower provides four-star downtown Chicago hotel accommodations minutes from the Magnificent Mile, Navy Pier, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Michigan and upscale boutiques. Designed by the French architect Jean-Paul Viguier, the downtown Chicago hotel is a 32-floor prism of glass, boasting 415 rooms, including 33 luxurious suites. Embrace modern design and rich architectural legacy at one of the best downtown Chicago Illinois hotels. From: timvp.com
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Wednesday, 26 December 2012
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Crown Fountain at Millennium Park by Crystal Fountains - Chicago, Illinois, USA Tube. Duration : 1.67 Mins.
www.crystalfountains.com Chicago is home to a number of architectural landmarks. In 2004 they unveiled their newest landmark, Millennium Park, a world-class artistic and architectural extravaganza just off the famed "Magnficent Mile". The park has transformed unsightly railroad tracks and parking lots along prime lakefront into an architectural showcase. A collection of world-class artists, architects, planners, landscape artists and designers contributed to this unprecedented landmark. Crystal Fountains worked with the artist Jaume Plensa and full design team on the "Crown Fountain" taking interactive art, technology and water-shaping to new levels
www.crystalfountains.com Chicago is home to a number of architectural landmarks. In 2004 they unveiled their newest landmark, Millennium Park, a world-class artistic and architectural extravaganza just off the famed "Magnficent Mile". The park has transformed unsightly railroad tracks and parking lots along prime lakefront into an architectural showcase. A collection of world-class artists, architects, planners, landscape artists and designers contributed to this unprecedented landmark. Crystal Fountains worked with the artist Jaume Plensa and full design team on the "Crown Fountain" taking interactive art, technology and water-shaping to new levels
Friday, 21 December 2012
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Luca Celada: CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE CRUISE Tube. Duration : 5.73 Mins.
Chicago is generally credited with being the birthplace of the skyscraper and perhaps more even than the isle of Manhattan, it stands today as urban testament to the architectural form that most embodies the monumental ideal. The great American metropolis purified by fire at the dawn of modernity and reborn phoenix-like at the altar of commerce and profit was the natural setting for a vertical urban explosion rooted in technological prowess, design and hubris. The citys river, which was itself reverse engineered to flow backwards, away from Lake Michigan, cuts through the downtown loop as through the bottom of an urban canyon, whose sheer walls reveal the sediment of 150 years of architectural modernism. There are several architectural river cruises on the Chicago River, including the ones run by the Chicago Architecture Foundation, where works by Daniel Burnham, Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Helmut Jahn and Mies Van Der Rohe can be seen from tour boats. Today in the age of commissioned archistar theme parks (think Dubai), Chicago remains as testament to the organic melding of power and architecture, money and design in the American Century.
Chicago is generally credited with being the birthplace of the skyscraper and perhaps more even than the isle of Manhattan, it stands today as urban testament to the architectural form that most embodies the monumental ideal. The great American metropolis purified by fire at the dawn of modernity and reborn phoenix-like at the altar of commerce and profit was the natural setting for a vertical urban explosion rooted in technological prowess, design and hubris. The citys river, which was itself reverse engineered to flow backwards, away from Lake Michigan, cuts through the downtown loop as through the bottom of an urban canyon, whose sheer walls reveal the sediment of 150 years of architectural modernism. There are several architectural river cruises on the Chicago River, including the ones run by the Chicago Architecture Foundation, where works by Daniel Burnham, Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Helmut Jahn and Mies Van Der Rohe can be seen from tour boats. Today in the age of commissioned archistar theme parks (think Dubai), Chicago remains as testament to the organic melding of power and architecture, money and design in the American Century.
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