Chicago Export: Goettsch Goes all Curvy in Guangzhou
The newest sensation in Chinese skyscrapers is the work of Chicago’s own Goettsch Partners. The new R&F Yingkai Square in Guangzhou is finally complete, and officially opened earlier this month. We last updated you on this skyscraper back in January when the building’s Park Hyatt opened. A few months later we happened to give the Grand Hyatt Tokyo a thorough workout, and there’s a reason that both buildings have...
New Year, New Hotel for Goettsch Partners
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. While you were...