6 Responses to “Photo of the Day”

1. #1 |  Matt |  May 22nd, 2009 at 10:46 am

   What a beautiful old building. Sometimes I think our cities would look nicer if we just tore down everything built after 1950.

2. #2 |  Price |  May 22nd, 2009 at 11:24 am

   Radley,

   Were you in Chicago and didn’t tell us?

3. #3 |  kyle |  May 22nd, 2009 at 2:43 pm

   Matt, are you saying you think the extruded amaco building is detracting from the view? Makes all the art deco and gothic buildings look all the better. And a bit of color tweaking sure makes the carbide and carbon building pop :)

4. #4 |  Windypundit |  May 22nd, 2009 at 5:33 pm

   I find the Amoco building a bit haunting, since its construction is so similar to the World Trade Center towers.

5. #5 |  Jon Hendry |  May 22nd, 2009 at 10:57 pm

   I’ve been up in the cupola on that large white/beige building. To get there you’d go up to a high floor in the regular elevator, then get out and walk down a hall. In the corner at the end of the hall is a curved, old-fashioned elevator cage. Get in to that little elevator, and it takes you up to the cupola. The center of the room is a large cylinder, maybe a water tank?

   Supposedly it was once a speakeasy-type-place, but at the time I was there it was part of the offices of an architecture firm. What was especially cool, apart from the views, and the general awesomeness of the space, was that they had a scale architectural model of downtown Chicago, with a zillion little buildings.

6. #6 |  Jon Hendry |  May 22nd, 2009 at 10:59 pm

   http://www.cityofchicago.org/Landmarks/numbers/35EWacker.html

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