it's my first time viewing this thread, very cool pics.
Not skyscrapers...but hope no one minds. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
A few more old photos of Chicago from the 1930's-1950's including the Graf Zeppelin in 1933. Some areas look almost the same now, other than the old cars and huge skyscrapers in the background.The 1970's photo is of AON under construction. AON was completed before the World Trade Towers in NY. Notice the lack of imported cars back then on the streets, sort of like Tokyo, Japan looks like now. Back then American's were proud of American products and the American industrial revolution. Now we are a bunch of NIMBYS sending huge amounts of manufacturing to Communist China and buying huge amounts of Asian cars. Thats not how America was built. Maybe its time to get back to the way it was, or we could become a has been within the next 25 years? Tom Tanner/Ferrari Expo 2010 model/photo contest-Chicago April 2010 Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Photo update from this week. Legacy and Trump are almost finished. BCBS is 90% done. One Museum Park cladding finally finished. Museum Park West getting close to top out. Tom Tanner/Ferrari Expo 2010 model/photo contest-Chicago April 2010 Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
More vintage Chicago photos from this site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zeusofhollywood/sets/72157615748797666/ Some date back to 1953. Construction of the Sears Tower and AON are from 1973. Tom Tanner/Scale Designs/Ferrari Expo 2010 model/photo contest-Chicago April 2010 Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Some more photo updates: Museum Park West almost done. Taken last weekend with all the November fall colors. Tom Tanner/Ferrari Expo 2010 model/photo contest-Chicago April 2010 Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Nice shots. And I'm relieved to see that I'm not the only one having difficulties getting towers straight. Pretty much all my shots are askew by 2 degrees. My inner ear must have difficulties aligning with Earth's horizon.
Here are a few more photos from this week. They include photos of the South Loop, BCBS, Legacy, Museum Park, Trump ect. Considering the Trump is now the 6th tallest building in the world, it doesn't look very big from this angle(1st picture middle next to the John Hancock, wich looks even smaller). 4 1100ft+ buildings are in the 1st photo. Sears(will always be Sears) is 1600feet to the very top. Sears Tower will still be the second tallest building in the world if you count the antennas. I hope they finish Waterview and the Spire so we have 6 over 1100ft tall buildings. Tom Tanner/Scale Designs/Ferrari Expo -Strictly 43rd Revival model/photo contest-Chicago April 24th 2010 Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2009/11/can-unions-help-build-the-chicago-spire-as-they-did-marina-city.html Looks like it might start construction again!! Go Chicago Spire.... Tom Tanner/Scale Designs/Ferrari Expo -Strictly 43rd Revival model/photo contest-Chicago April 24th 2010
Well, they are tearing down the YWCA building at 830S Michigan Avenue. Not in very good condition, it has seen better days.The building was built around 1895. Is this the future of preservation in Chicago. This is on the Michigan Avenue street wall that is considered by many preservationist to be on the most endangered in America list. This building was by no means the best in that area but they should have atleast saved the face. Photo by museumparktom from skyscraperpage.com Tom Tanner/Scale Designs/Ferrari Expo 2010 model/photo contest-Chicago April 24th 2010 Image Unavailable, Please Login
The Architectural Foundation at 224 South Michigan (1 block South of the Art Institute) has currently a very neat model of the Loop on display: Image Unavailable, Please Login
Great thread... I see it has been around awhile, but this is my first time seeing it! I grew up in the Western suburbs of Chicago, but had a pretty 'fast' time of things in HS and spent most of my truly 'formative years' in the city. Fast forward many years, and I'm on the West Coast now (where I miss the culture immensely, but the winters, not so much...) and my folks moved back East, but I still get back to the place I consider 'home' from time to time, and I am looking forward to a visit this summer. Bounty... the first picture looking south from your deck (with the Hancock) has my father-in-law's place visible... 2xx E. Delaware. Nice neighborhood! Especially with things the way they are today, it's truly great to see that the city I called home for so many years is thriving and growing. Great pics everyone... Thanks for the memories! My kind of town. -Tad
I've got to say I've never warmed to Chicago, despite being there many times. My best friend from college and god-father of my older son lived and died there, and he was about 38 at the time of died. I will never again specify a Thyssen-Krupp elevator. For the midwest it has a lot going for it, but it's not New York.
Thats true, its not New York. Most who visit Chicago think it looks better that NYC( and smells better to!!) TT
Since this is a thread about skyscrapers and architecture: An often heard fact is, that in Chicago the skyscrapers have a much better stage to shine on as they are not as jam packed and crowded as in Manhattan. Also the world's first highrise building was built in Chicago. And the world's first multi level parking garage.
