Where is this building that looks like a gingerbread house? It is partially due to the Great Chicago fire, at least that is what they tell you growing up there.
The city was a clean slate right when they started being able to build with steel. Many architects thus were able to build without constraints. In a place like LA no one cares about buildings. Today, there are different styles of architecture all throughout the city, such as the Chicago School, neo-classical, art deco, modern, and postmodern. The Home Insurance Building in Chicago , opened in , is, however, most often labelled the first skyscraper because of its innovative use of structural steel in a metal frame design.
The Clarke house is often described as the oldest surviving house in Chicago, although part of the Noble-Seymour-Crippen House in the Norwood Park neighborhood was built in However, Norwood Park was not annexed to Chicago until The entire metropolitan area boasts historic, stunning buildings; it is the Loop's bevy of famous 'supertalls' that sets Chicago apart from the pack. Willis Tower. Chicago Board of Trade Building. Flow Rhythm Movement.
One Hundred St. Louis, MO, Solar Carving Rhythm. Solstice on the Park Chicago, IL, Tour Montparnasse Paris, France, Reuse Movement Beyond Transparent. The St. In the bedroom area fly approximately 3. In conjunction with a water collection system, a power efficient system and the large roof garden located on the level of amenities, sought to turn the Aqua tower in a tower with LEED certification. Mainly its plants have been used for residential units and hotels, but also has many shops and commercial offices.
On the floors of the tower base and surrounded by terraced gardens that occupy m2, located two floors are dedicated to different areas of entertainment, barbecues, swimming pools, jacuzzis, saunas, jogging track, reading rooms and a spa and other services.
The reinforced concrete structure is supported by 31 drawers drilled into the rock meters below ground and placed six meters in a layer of dolomite. These are supplemented with bells of compressed air, smaller and sunken clay. Although the Aqua Tower is a building whose structure is concrete, levels 1, 2 and 3 were constructed of steel, creating a metal tray on which to spread the concrete. The steep walls tower used to transfer the loads of the columns, instead of downloading on the flagstones of the floor slabs.
The construction of curved shuttering at the edges of the balconies was guided by a global positioning system. Responding to the site for the proposed tower, which was surrounded by a jungle of nearby high-rises, Gang and her colleagues produced a novel concept: a skyscraper whose balconies would be stretched outward, varying from 2 to 12 feet, to capture views that would not be available otherwise.
For example, if you lived on the east side of the tower, you would not only be able to see Lake Michigan but also Millennium Park, as you would be able to peer through the thicket of adjoining high-rises. Inspired by the layered topography of limestone outcroppings along the Great Lakes, Gang sculpted the balconies into a larger visual order. Reflecting her talent for giving poetic form to mundane materials, the design seized on the plasticity of concrete. When SGA took on this project, it was important to them to incorporate sustainable features into their building design.
More resourceful still, they also protect the building from the force of wind, one of the most difficult challenges in skyscraper engineering.
The landscape of rolling hills and valleys created by the balconies effectively diffuses the heavy Chicago winds, giving them no clear path.
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