City by Design: Chicago: An Architectural Perspective of Chicago (City By Design series) - Hardcover

9781933415512: City by Design: Chicago: An Architectural Perspective of Chicago (City By Design series)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1933415517 ISBN 13: 9781933415512

Publisher: Panache Partners LLC, 2008

Showcasing prominent commercial structures and the talented architects who brought them to life, these pictorial histories contain outstanding photography of some of the leading cities in the United States. Offering insight into the diversity and progression of metropolitan architecture, different firms represented in this series discuss the influences found in their featured work. Illuminating the unique and defining characteristics of each building, the process that brought it to fruition, and the impact each structure had on the community at large, these artistic chronicles will delight lovers of architecture, travel, and urban living.

Works of architecture presented in this volume include Goettsch Partners' majestic 111 South Wacker, Solomon Cordwell Buenz's chic 340 on the Park, VOA's restoration of the legendary Navy Pier, and Skidmore Owings & Merrill's Trump International Hotel and Tower—which will be second in height only to Chicago's famed Sears Tower.

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Panache Partners, LLC, is a publishing company based in Dallas, Texas, that specializes in developing upscale coffee-table books on luxury lifestyle subjects including architecture, interior design, golf, wine, art, event planning, and travel.

Review:

"This title will be of interest to students of architecture, architects, Chicagoans, and armchair travelers." —Library Journal

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