A little river tour of Chicago
I’m currently in Chicago filming our last installment of the At&t series. I absolutely love Chicago and I’m really glad to be back here. One of the first things we did was to take an architecture boat tour. It was fantastic. Check out this video I made while we were on the boat:
I am fascinated with architecture, so this was especially a treat. I learned a lot from the tour. The guide said Art Deco, Post Modern, and Chicago school quite a bit.
The curve of this building mimicks the curve of the river. It is divided in two and the other side is angular, to mimick the city blocks. That style is called contextualism. Yes I learned this on the tour.
This building is so big, it has it’s own zip code! It’s called the Merchandise Mart and is over 4 million square feet.
More photos of the tour and our trip here. One of the buildings has a freeway going right through it, and the building was built before the road. Crazy.
That looks good
October 20th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Holy crap that building is big!
October 20th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Hey I have a co-worker who works at the Merchandise Mart (whereas I work for the company in NY) and I never knew what the Mart looked like – it’s amazing!
Karen, what is your email??
October 21st, 2008 at 2:02 pm
@katie ya it’s really impressive. I want to see what it looks like inside. My email is karen [at] karenism [dot] com. I should put that up on my page
October 21st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Hi and a hearty Happy Birthday to a very lovely lady. Your webpages are so interesting and nice to look at and your pictures are so colorful and fun. I will make a resolution next year to survey all your archives. I can’t wait, but so much work to do all the time.
Have a Wonderful Day, and thumbs down to PayPal. Have you ever considered using a debit card, instead of credit card?
Grayce in PA
November 21st, 2008 at 4:21 pm
@hgpe thank you so much. I thought about getting rid of the credit card, but I want to build up some credit for larger purchase in the future. I should just pay it off every month.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:36 pm