Monday, August 8, 2011

Chicago, an architectural marvel



These are two of our favourite buildings. The Corncob towers were built in the 60”s when the infrastructure of the downtown area was very spread out. The architect was trying to make more of a self-contained ‘village’. The top of the round building is all apartments; the bottom section is the garage where you need to drive very slowly in reverse! At the base of the towers were restaurants, shops and a movie theatre.

This wavy looking building was my favourite. The award-winning apartment building was designed by a female architect in 2009. It is called Aqua. The changing shape of the balconies on the apartments give it the flowing , liquid shape. It looks super cool in real life!

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