Insite Real Estate – Chicago Iconic Buildings and Historical Landmarks

Friedman Fine Art, referred by Whitney Architects is pleased to present a unique art program recently developed for InSite Real Estate in Oak Brook, Illinois. The concept, which was a collaboration between the CEO of the firm and Friedman Fine Art, was to display an array of Chicago’s iconic buildings by exhibiting a skyline shot, a close-up shot of the building, and an intriguing architectural detail. The 62 black and white photographs in the collection were taken by some of the city’s finest architectural photographers and mounted on acrylic float frames.

: Standard Oil Building 200 E. Randolph Street

: The Aon Center is a modern supertall skyscraper
in the Chicago Loop, Chicago, Illinois, United States

: AON Center designed by architect firms Edward Durell Stone and
The Perkins and Will partnership, and
completed in 1974 as the Standard Oil Building.

: Insite Building Interior Set of 3 AON Center Mounted Photographs

: Chicago Board of Trade 141 West Jackson Boulevard

: Aerial view of The Chicago Board of Trade

: Chicago Board of Trade stands at 141 W. Jackson Boulevard
at the foot of the LaSalle Street canyon,
in the Loop community area in Cook County.

: Mounted Pictures of Historic Board of Trade Insite Installation

: 311 South Wacker Drive - Kohn Pederson Fox Associates 1990

: At 961 feet tall, it is the seventh tallest building in Chicago and the 21st tallest in the United States.

: 311 South Wacker Drive in Chicago, USA,
is a post-modern 65-story skyscraper completed in 1990.

: The top of the building is a 105-foot (32 m)-tall translucent cylinder,
surrounded by four other smaller cylinders, which was inspired
by the massing of the Tribune Tower.

: Insite Installation of 4 Historical Chicago Photographs

: Sears Tower 233 South Wacker Drive - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill 1973

: The Willis Tower, built as and still commonly referred to as Sears Tower,
is a 108-story, 1,450-foot skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, United States

: The Willis Tower is the second-tallest building in the United States and the 16th-tallest in the world.

: Willis Tower remains the second tallest building in the Americas (after One World Trade Center) and the Western Hemisphere.

: Insite Historical Photos of Sears Tower

: First National Bank Building 10 South Dearborn Street
C.F. Murphy Associates | Perkins & Will 1969

: Chase Tower, located in the Chicago Loop area of Chicago at
10 South Dearborn Street, is a 60 story skyscraper completed in 1969.

: The building first opened in 1969 as First National Plaza.

: First National Bank Photos

: The steel and glass house was commissioned by Dr. Edith Farnsworth,
a prominent Chicago nephrologist, as a place where she
could engage in her hobbies.

: Farnsworth House 14520 River Road, Plano, IL - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1951

: The house is currently owned and operated as an historic house museum by
the historic preservation group, National Trust for Historic Preservation.

: Insite 3 Pictures of Farnsworth House

: Aqua 225 North Columbus Drive - Studio Gang Architects 2009

: Aqua is an 82-story mixed-use residential skyscraper in the
Lakeshore East development in downtown Chicago, Illinois

: The Aqua was awarded the Emporis Skyscraper Award as 2009 skyscraper of the year,
and was shortlisted in 2010 for the biennial International Highrise Award.

: 3 Aqua Photos on Wall

: Marina City 300 North State Street

: Designed by Bertrand Goldberg, Marina City was the first building
in the United States to be constructed with tower cranes.

: Marina City apartments are unique in containing almost no interior right angles.

: One IBM Plaza 330 North Wabash Avenue - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1971

: Marina City Photos at Insite Chicago

: John Hancock Center 875 North Michigan Avenue - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill 1969

: One of the most famous buildings of the structural expressionist style,
the skyscraper's distinctive X-braced exterior shows that the structure's skin is part of its 'tubular system'.

: This X-bracing allows for both higher performance from tall structures and the ability
to open up the inside floorplan. Such original features have made the John Hancock Center an architectural icon.

: Including two antennas, the John Hancock Center has a height of 1,499 feet (457 m),
making it the thirty-third tallest building in the world when measured to pinnacle height.

: John Hancock Office Pictures

: Wrigley Building 400 North Michigan Avenue - Graham, Anderson, Probst & White 1921

: The Wrigley Building is a skyscraper located directly across Michigan Avenue from the Tribune Tower on the Magnificent Mile

: The two towers are of differing heights, with the south tower rising to 30 stories and the north tower to 21 stories.

: Tribune Tower 435 North Michigan Avenue - John Meade Howells | Raymond Hood 1925

: Several buildings around the world make reference to the design of the Tribune tower.

: Rookery Building 209 South LaSalle Street - Burnham & Root 1888

: The name of the building is an allusion to the old City Hall building that occupied the land before the Rookery

: Making prodigious use of light and ornamentation, Root and Burnham designed a central light court
to serve as the focal point for the entire building and provide daylight to interior offices.

: While much of the Loop's 19th-century architecture has been lost to demolition and redevelopment,
the Rookery has been spared this fate through a series of well executed renovations.

: The marble and decorative details added a sense of luxury to the lobby's steel-laden interior

: Richard J. Daley Center 50 West Washington Street - C. F. Murphy Associates 1965

: the Richard J. Daley Center is considered one of Chicago's architectural highlights.

: The Richard J. Daley Center, also known by its courtyard Daley Plaza and named after
longtime mayor Richard J. Daley, is the premier civic center of the City of Chicago in Illinois

: Carson, Pirie, Scott Building 1 South State Street - Louis Sullivan 1899

: The Carson Pirie Scott name is strongly associated with the historic Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building
designed by Louis Sullivan, built in 1899 for the retail firm
Schlesinger & Mayer, and expanded and sold to Carson Pirie Scott in 1904.

: The chain began in 1854 when Scotsmen Samuel Carson and John Pirie
first clerked in the Murray's dry goods store in Peru, Illinois

: 333 West Wacker Drive - Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates 1983

: The building features a curved green glass facade,
while on the other side the building adheres to the usual rectangular street grid.

: The building marks the division between North Wacker Drive and West Wacker Drive as the street makes a 90 degree turn

: Inland Steel Building 30 West Monroe Street - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill 1957

: It was built in the years 1956–1957 and was the first skyscraper to be
built in the Chicago Loop following the Great Depression of the 1930s.

: The Inland Steel Building was designated a Chicago Landmark on October 7, 1998.

: Dirksen Federal Building 219 South Dearborn Street
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1964

: The simple and well-proportioned steel-and-glass design of the Chicago Federal Center epitomizes
the minimalist architectural approach favored by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

: S.R. Crown Hall 3410 South State Street - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1956

: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at work

: Other Feature Elements in the Art Program

: Custom Painted Baltic Birch - Michael Finnegan

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