![]() ![]() In order to gain access to natural ventilation and daylight for these offices, the glass skylight typically located at the top of a single-loaded corridor building, had to be relocated to the lowest office floor. ![]() It is so large that instead of wrapping it with the traditional single-loaded corridor plan, Burnham had calculated that an interior ring of offices could also be included, almost doubling the rentable floor area which would also increase the building’s profitability. The site is surrounded by streets or alleys on all four sides, offering generous daylight for offices located around its perimeter. It is located only two blocks north of the city’s Board of Trade, which at the time of the Rookery’s design was the city’s tallest building, having a 303’ tall tower, designed by W.W. The site is the southeast corner of Adams and La Salle Streets, considered to be Chicago’s financial district. The building was designated a Chicago Landmark on July 5, 1972, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Apand listed as a National Historic Landmark on May 15, 1975. Root quietly made sure that the site’s infamous past would not be forgotten by having a Rook carved in each impost block at the building’s two entries. Chicagoans derisively continued to refer to the City Hall after it was erected as “The Rookery” in comparing the politically corrupt actions of the city leaders to that of the birds’ droppings. Against the wishes of the building’s primary owners (Peter and Shepherd Brooks of Boston), the building still bears this “romantic” name. Its site had been the location of the temporary, post-1871 Fire City Hall that was erected around a municipally-owned water tower in which pigeons roosted that was nicknamed “The Rookery”. Image © Studio GangĮlevator consultant: Jenkins & Huntington, Inc.The Rookery is an eleven-story speculative skyscraper in Chicago designed in 1885 by Burnham & Root. Image © Studio GangĬontext study diagram. The project received Honor Award, Divine Detail, Design Excellence Awards, AIA Chicago, 2016 and Citation of Merit, Distinguished Building, Design Excellence Awards, AIA Chicago, 2016. Platforms extend from the stems in phyllotactic patterns that allow oblique sightlines between neighbours. The building’s balcony 'stems' act as columns that take gravity loads to the ground. ![]() Its design emphasizes its structure, with a playful array of stacked concrete panels forming columns, bays, balconies, and sunshades–creating a visually-exciting exterior and multiple opportunities for residents to socialize outdoors and connect with the surrounding city. At street level, the building’s retail arcade, multiple lobbies, and wider, improved sidewalks create a dynamic, walkable community scene.Ī residential tower with a transparent amenity level and outdoor gardens and fitness areas rises from the plinth. Studio Gang's building distinguishes itself by creating a new architectural language among other flat residential blocks.Ĭovering a total area of 46,000 square meters (500,000 sf), the mixed-use project mixes new options for living, shopping, and outdoor recreation and leisure to its full-block site, formerly an underused parking lot and strip mall. Located at a busy commercial intersection near Lake Michigan and adjacent to a commuter rail stop, City Hyde Park is designed to become a pedestrian-friendly hub that helps encourage the greater urban evolution of its neighborhood. Chicago and New York-based architecture practice Studio Gang has completed its new apartment building in Chicago, USA, which is comprised of many irregular 'patelliform' balconies on one facade of the apartment. The apartment is conceived as a new modernist piece in the city with its own character and identity within the context. ![]()
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