Goettsch Partners Tops Out Its Tallest Building Ever
When you’re in school you tug on your beret and tell your professors and peers that skyscrapers are nothing more than phallic symbols, and the real craft of architecture is in small-scale context sensitive creations that leverage the holistic blah blah blah blah. Nobody’s taking an architecture boat tour down the Chicago River to look things that are small. Nanning China Resources Center (Courtesy of Goettsch Partners) And while the...
Chicago Exports: Goettsch Plants Another Flag in China
Today we continue a series of reports we call “Chicago Exports.” So much of the world’s great architecture is designed right here in Chicago by Chicagoans, but it’s not built in Chicagoland so it goes unseen by the hometown crowd. That’s why we are featuring the great works produced by Chicago architects continuing the city’s proud legacy as the birthplace of the skyscraper, and a global center of architecture. Loop architecture firm...
Goettsch Partners Completes Hainan Project
Today we continue a series of reports we call “Chicago Exports.” So much of the world’s great architecture is designed right here in Chicago by Chicagoans, but it’s not built in Chicagoland so it goes unseen by the hometown crowd. That’s why we are featuring the great works produced by Chicago architects continuing the city’s proud legacy as the birthplace of the skyscraper, and a global center of architecture. There has been much...
Goettsch Eyed For Optics Valley Project in Wuhan
Today we continue the series of reports we call “Chicago Exports.” So much of the world’s great architecture is designed right here in Chicago by Chicagoans, but it’s not built in Chicagoland so it goes unseen by the hometown crowd. That’s why we are featuring the great works produced by Chicago architects continuing the city’s proud legacy as the birthplace of the skyscraper, and a global center of architecture. A design crafted by...
Chicago About to Lose Another Skyscraper Title
One of the great things about living in Chicago’s John Hancock Center (875 North Michigan Avenue) is the pool. Sure, there are lots of skyscrapers in Chicago with their own pools, but the Hancock’s is different in three key ways: It’s inside, so you can use it all year It’s a real full-sized pool, not one of these decorative wading ponds that developers opt for these days It’s on the 44th floor That...
Chicago Firm Designs World’s Second-Tallest Building
Today we continue our series of reports we call “Chicago Exports.” So much of the world’s great architecture is designed right here in Chicago by Chicagoans, but it’s not built in Chicagoland so it goes unseen by the hometown crowd. That’s why we are featuring the great works produced by Chicago architects continuing the city’s proud legacy as the birthplace of the skyscraper, and a global center of architecture. Friends-of-the-Blog,...
Spilling The Bean: Cloud Gate Gets A Twin In China
Millennium Park’s iconic centerpiece sculpture “Cloud Gate” evidently has a twin bean, all the way over in the Chinese town of Karamay, according to the government-run newspaper People’s Daily Online. The oil producing town fittingly refers to its sculpture as a “big oil bubble.” People’s Daily reports that the stainless steel sculpture is scheduled for official unveiling later this month. The sculpture has been in the...
Chicago Firm Behind New Tower in Shunde, China
Friends Of The Blog, Goettsch Partners, has released the details of its new office tower about to go up in Shunde, China. This is going to be a 650-foot-tall building between Guangzhou and Hong Kong. It’s been a few years since I’ve been in that part of the world, and all I remember of it was fields and mountains and haze. It’s simply incredible how quickly that part of the world is growing. And while Chicago is no...
