Rookery Building | Favorite Architecture

The Rookery Building is a historic landmark, office building located at 209 South LaSalle Street in the Loopcommunity area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Completed by John Wellborn Root and Daniel Burnham of Burnham and Root in 1888, it is considered one of their masterpiece buildings, and was once the location of their offices. The building is 181 feet (55 m) high, twelve stories tall, and is considered the oldest standing high-rise in Chicago. It has a unique style with exterior load-bearing walls and an interior steel frame, which provided a transition between accepted and new building techniques. The lobby was remodeled in 1905 by Frank Lloyd Wright. Beginning in 1989, the lobby was restored to the original Wright design,More info:wiki

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Today, architects across the globe push the boundaries of materials and technology in order to design taller and taller buildings. Supertall structures, like the Burj Khalifa tower (Dubai, 2008) designed by the Chicago firm of SOM Architects, reach thousands of feet into the sky. The origins of these incredible buildings began in America at the end of the nineteenth century. At this time the city of Chicago was at the forefront of tall building design.

After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Chicago architects began to explore new construction methods and materials to build compact, tall buildings in the city’s business district, the Loop. Inventions such as the Otis safety elevator, first exhibited at the 1854 New York World’s Fair, ferried visitors upwards to new heights, while manufacturing advances allowed for the mass production of affordable steel for construction.

 

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The Rookery is one of the most historically significant buildings in Chicago. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and was designated a Chicago Landmark in 1972. This architectural masterpiece was designed by Burnham and Root. It was completed in 1888, during the building boom following the Great Chicago Fire. It was considered the largest and finest office building in the United States.

So, how did the Rookery get its name? It comes from a municipal structure that stood on the site for many years. Pigeons and crows had a fondness for hanging out and nesting on the building.

 

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One of the Loop buildings most beloved by architecture fans, the Rookery is known for its dramatic, sky-lit interior light court; its spiraling cast iron staircase; and its bold façade of red granite, brick and terra-cotta ornament.  At 16 stories, it is one of the oldest high-rise buildings in Chicago.

The building was named for the birds that roosted on a previous structure that stood on the site.  To honor that heritage, architects Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root placed sculptures of rooks (a kind of crow) in the building’s exterior ornament.

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