Chicago Architecture
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1800s
Henry B. Clarke House, Chicago, IL, (unknown) (1836)
Chicago Water Tower and Pumping Station, Chicago, IL, William W. Boyington (1869)
Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago, IL, Patrick C. Keely (1875)
Home Insurance Building (demolished), Chicago, IL, William LeBaron Jenney (1885)
John J. Glessner House, Chicago, IL, H. H. Richardson (1886)
The Rookery Building, Chicago, IL, Burnham and Root (1888)
Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Chicago, IL, Frank Lloyd Wright (1889)
154 W. Superior, Chicago, IL, (unknown), (1880s or 1890s, renovated in 2022)
Manhattan Building, Chicago, IL, William LeBaron Jenny (1891)
Charnley-Persky House, Chicago, IL, USA, Louis Sullivan & Frank Lloyd Wright (1891-1892)
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL, D.H. Burnham & Co. (1893)
Chicago Athletic Association, Chicago, IL, Henry Ives Cobb (1893)
Monadnock Building, Chicago, IL, Burnham & Root, Holabird & Roche (1891-1893)
Reliance Building (Staypineapple Hotel), Chicago, IL, Burnham & Root (1895)
Marquette Building, Chicago, IL, Holabird & Roche (1895)
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, USA (1897)
Fine Arts Building (Studebaker Building), Chicago, IL, Solon S. Beman (1898)
1900s
Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Chicago, IL, Louis H. Sullivan (1903)
Sullivan Center, Chicago, IL, Louis H. Sullivan (1899, 1903)
Railway Exchange Building (224 South Michigan), Chicago, IL, D.H. Burnham & Co. (1904)
The Rookery Building Redesign, Chicago, IL, Frank Lloyd Wright (1905)
Congress Hotel, Chicago, IL, Holabird & Roche (1907)
Humboldt Park, Chicago, IL, William LeBaron Jenny, Jens Jensen (1869, 1907)
Unity Temple, Chicago, IL, Frank Lloyd Wright (1908 or 1909?)
1910s
Robie House (Frederick C. Robie House), Chicago, IL, USA, Frank Lloyd Wright (1910)
Emil Bach House, Chicago, IL, Frank Lloyd Wright (1915)
1920s
DuSable Bridge (Michigan Avenue Bridge), Chicago, IL, Edward H. Bennett, Thomas G. Pihlfelt, Hugh Young (1920)
St. Mary of the Angels, Chicago, IL, Worthmann & Steinbach (1920)
The Salt Shed (Morton Salt Warehouse), Chicago, IL, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White (1920)
Wrigley Building (South Building), Chicago, IL, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White (1921)
Chicago Theater (Chicago Theatre Center, Page Brothers Building), Chicago, IL, C.W. and George L. Rapp (1921)
London Guarantee Building, Chicago, IL, Alfred S. Alschuler (1923)
Soldier Field, Chicago, IL, Holabird & Roche, Wood + Zapata, Lohan and Associates (1922-1924)
Wrigley Building Annex, Chicago, IL, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White (1924)
Wrigley Building, Chicago, IL, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White (1924)
Tribune Tower, Chicago, IL, Howells & Hood (1925)
Union Station, Chicago, IL, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White (1925)
Uptown Theatre, Chicago, IL, C.W. and George L. Rapp (1925)
Elks National Memorial Building and Headquarters, Chicago, IL, Egerton Swartwout (1926)
Avalon Theater (New Regal Theater), Chicago, IL, John Eberson (1927)
Lyric Opera House (Civic Opera House), Chicago, IL, Graham, Anderson, Probst (1929)
Carbide and Carbon Building (Pendry Hotel), Chicago, IL, Burnham Brothers (1929)
1930s
Chicago Board of Trade Building, Chicago, IL, Holabird & Root (1930)
Merchandise Mart (theMART), Chicago, IL, Graham, Anderson, Probst and White (1930)
Old Chicago Main Post Office, Chicago, IL, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White (1921/1932/2019)
1940s
Minerals and Metals Building, IIT, Chicago, IL, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1943)
Wishnick Hall, IIT, Chicago, IL, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1946)
Perlstein Hall Mechanical and Chemical Engineering Building), IIT, Chicago, IL, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1947)
The Promontory Apartments, Chicago, IL, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1949)
1950s
Lake Shore Drive Apartments, (860-880 North Lake Shore Drive) Chicago, IL, USA, Mies van der Rohe (1951)
Chapel, IIT, Chicago, IL, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1952)
Baha’i House of Worship, Chicago, IL, Louis Bourgeois and Alfred Shaw, (1921-1953)
The Commons at IIT, Chicago, IL, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1954)
Crown Hall (S.R. Crown Hall), Chicago, IL, Mies van der Rohe, Pace Associates, C.F. Murphy Associates (1956)
Esplanade Apartment Buildings, Chicago, IL, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1956)
Commonwealth Promenade Apartments, Chicago, IL, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1956)
Inland Steel Building, Chicago, IL, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1958)
1960s
2400 North Lakeview Condominiums, Chicago, IL, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1963)
Chicago Federal Center (John C. Kluczynski Federal Building, Everett McKinley Dirksen US Courthouse, Post Office), Chicago, IL, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1964)
Marina Towers (Marina City), Chicago, IL, Bertrand Goldberg (1964)
Richard J. Daley Center, Chicago, IL, C.F. Murphy Associates, Loebl, Schlossman & Bennett, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1965)
School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1965)
111 East Wacker (One Illinois Center), Chicago, IL, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1967-?)
John Hancock Center (aka 875 North Michigan Avenue), Chicago, IL, USA, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1969)
1970s
111 East Wacker (One Illinois Center), Chicago, IL, USA, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1970)
330 North Wabash (One IBM Plaza, IBM Building, AMA Plaza), Chicago, IL, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1972)
Aon Center, Chicago, IL, Edward Durell Stone & Associates and Perkins+Will (1973)
Willis Tower (Sears Tower), Chicago, IL, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1974)
1980s
333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL, Kohn Pederson Fox (1983)
James R Thompson Center (State Building of Illinois Building), Chicago, IL, Murphy/Jahn, Lester B. Knight & Associates (1985)
River City, Chicago, IL, Bertrand Goldberg (1986)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA, Josef Paul Kleihues (1996)
190 South LaSalle St, Chicago, IL, USA, John Burgee Architects w/ Phillip Johnson, Shaw Associates
1990s
Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago, IL, USA, Hammond, Beeby & Babka (1991)
2000s
IIT McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Chicago, IL, Rem Koolhaas, OMA (2003)
Pritzker Pavilion (Jay Pritzker Pavilion), Chicago, IL, Frank Gehry (2004)
BP Bridge, Chicago, IL, Frank Gehry (2004)
111 South Wacker, Chicago, IL, Goettsch Partners (2005)
Gary Comer Youth Center, Chicago, IL, John Ronan Architects (2006)
Sports Institute (Sports Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership), Chicago, IL, Krueck & Sexton Architects (2007)
Access Living Headquarters, 115 W Chicago Ave, LCM Architects (2007)
The Nichols Bridgeway, Chicago, IL, USA, Renzo Piano (2007-2009)
Aqua Tower, 225 N Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL, USA, Studio Gang Architects (2009)
Trump Tower (Trump International Hotel & Tower), Chicago, IL, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (2009)
2010s
Lincoln Park Zoo’s South Pond, Chicago, IL, Studio Gang (2010)
Mansueto Library (The Joe and Rita Mansueto Library), Chicago, IL, Helmut Jahn, Murphy/Jahn (2011)
The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL, John Ronan Architects (2011)
The Art Institute of Chicago Expansion, Chicago, IL, USA, Renzo Piano (2012)
William Jones College Preparatory High School, Chicago, IL, Perkins+Will (2013)
Apple Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA, Foster + Partners (2017)
150 North Riverside, Chicago, IL, USA, Goettsch Partners (2017)
The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare, Chicago, IL, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, Charcoalblue (2017)
Ed Kaplan Family Institute, Chicago, IL, USA, John Ronan Architects (2018)
2020s
Vista Tower (The St. Regis), Chicago, IL, USA, Studio Gang Architects (2016-2020)