Jewelers Building, Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Jewelers Building, Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built in 1925-1927, this Beaux Arts-style skyscraper was designed by Frederick P. Dinkelberg and Joachim Giaever, with Frederick J. Thielbar and John R. Fugard as supervising architects, and was the tallest building in Chicago, as well as the tallest in the world outside of New York City upon its completion, but quickly being surpassed by the nearby Pittsfield Building less than a year after its completion. The building has been known by various names over time, including the Pure Oil Building and the North American Life Insurance Building, but today more commonly is known as the Jewelers Building or 35 East Wacker. The building stands 40 stories and 523 feet (159 meters) tall, and once housed a restaurant known as the Stratosphere Club inside the domed top of the tower. The building is clad in limestone on the first floor, with terra cotta cladding above, and a main section that rises 23 stories, topped with four lanterns concealing water tanks at the corners and a central tower that rises an additional 17 stories to a lantern and dome. The building’s second, third, and fourth floors feature Chicago windows with decorative reliefs on the spandrels, a large copper clock with a sculpture at the corner of Wacker Drive and Wabash Street, two-story arched bays over the brass entrance doors, which feature decorative recessed spandrels and trim surrounds and are flanked by copper lantern sconces, with the fifth floor featuring one-over-one windows flanked by decorative relief panels below a cornice with dentist. Above the fifth floor and up to the arched windows on the nineteenth floor, the building features a repeating pattern of one-over-one double-hung windows flanked by quoins, with decorative spandrels, with the thirteenth floor featuring a band of belt coursing at the sill of the windows and a cornice with dentils above, and the twentieth, twenty-first, and twenty-second floors featuring windows in the central bays with dark-colored spandrels flanking engaged doric columns, and flanked by pilasters with cartouches, and the twenty-third floor featuring large corbels between the window bays, which support the cornice and parapet above, with features urns above the pillars that run vertically from the ground floor. The corner penthouses atop the lower roof feature rectilinear bases, above which are cylindrical open drums with fluted ionic columns and large rectilinear corner pillars that jut out from the faces of the drums and support urns, with an entablature with cartouches running around the top of the drum and pillars, below the heavily ornamented domes that feature decorative terra cotta cladding. The more slender upper tower extends up another 17 stories, with the lower portion being rectilinear with chamfered corners, window bays with decorative spandrels, one-over-one windows, arched windows at the top of these vertical window bays, and decorative engaged doric columns between the pairs of windows, above which is an entablature with arched panels, a cornice with modillions, and a decorative parapet, which features decorative cupolas at the corners. At the top of the tower, rising from the roof of the rectilinear section, is a circular drum, similar in character to the smaller corner towers below, which features engaged doric columns on each side in the intermediate spaces between the tall arched windows, with rectilinear pillars jutting out at the corners, above which is an entablature, urns atop the corner pillars, and an ornamented terra cotta dome. Inside, the building features modernized office space, with an intact historic lobby with chamfered marble pillars and wall cladding, marble floors, an intricate coffered ceiling with gilded rosettes and trim, decorative cornices at the top of the pillars and walls, brass railings, trim, and doors, brass chandeliers, brass elevator doors, and a brass letterbox. The building formerly housed a car storage lift in the larger lower portion of the building, up to the 23rd floor, which was removed during the 23rd Century and converted into additional office space inside the building. The building is a contributing structure in the Michigan–Wacker Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and was designated a Chicago Landmark in 1994. Today, the building still serves as an office building, housing multiple tenants, and has a commanding presence along the Chicago River. |
| 撮影日 | 2022-11-07 12:29:18 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Chicago, Illinois, United States 地図 |