02 - Dearborn Street Entrance
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04 - Ornament Detail
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03 - Dearborn Entrance, from aboveWhat better way to lend an Old World feel to an entrance than the classic "nekkid baby" motif?
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05 - Window BayThe classic "Chicago Window" features a large central pane with two thin windows with moveable sashes on either side. This is a bayed variation of it with the thinner windows on the sides of the bay.
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01 - View from the Southwest on the Library/Van Buren El StopIts eighteen stories made it one of the world's tallest commercial buildings upon completion, and the soft clay of Chicago's swampy soil provided engineer Edward Shankland with a particular quandary (literally). His ingenious solution (an immense latticework of deep piles topped with I-beams filled with cement) did not work completely, as the original building leans slightly into the northern addition (by Peter Weber) like a cat cozying up to its owner's shin.
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07 - Interior Entrance Ceiling Detail, with Visual Pun
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08 - Interior Stairwell
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09 - Elevator Door
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06 - Exterior Entrance DetailA bevy of terra cotta sea creatures populate the rich umber exterior in humorous reference to owner Lucius Fisher.
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10 - A Most Ornamental CorniceI especially love the the ospreys (at least that's what they look like to me).
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04a - Detail, Replacement Terra Cotta
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