calumet412:

Federal Center, Mies Van Der Rohe, 1964, photo by Bill Engdahl.

cityography:

a view of the sears tower from the west loop

Robert Vogele

archiveofaffinities:

Bertrand Goldberg, Marina City, Under Construction, Chicago, Illinois, 1959-1964

“I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.”
—H.L. Mencken

Photo: The South Shore by Matt Maldre

The Sears Tower by Matt Maldre

Happy 175th birthday to my hometown. Love.
[h/t HumbleCollective]

wallpapermag:

October travel news

Public Chicago, USA

Fresh from launching his Editions group, boutique hotel king Ian Schrager has opened the first property of new, more affordable hotel chain in the US. Working with interior designer Anda Andrei, he has completely overhauled the Ambassador East hotel, built in 1926, whose famous Pump Room restaurant was frequented by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor and John F Kennedy. The new hotel’s 285 rooms, are classic, clean and comfortable - ‘we are not trying to be hip - in fact we are anti-hip,’ says Schrager - and start from a modest $135 a night.

I practically grew up in The Pump Room; I can’t wait to see what Schrager and Andrei have done to the property.

The McCormick House