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Richard J. Daley Center
Architect: C.F. Murphy Associates
Date: 1965
Style: International
Address: 50 West Washington Street
Height: 648 ft. (32 Floors)
Exterior: Exposed Corten Steel
Structural
Material: Steel
Program: Court House and Government Office
The structural columns of the Richard J. Daley Center are 87 feet apart, which is a relatively large span. Towards the top of the columns, the width diminishes as the floors require less support.
For four years, from 1965 to 1969, the Daley Center was the tallest building in Chicago. In 2001, it received historical status, only 36 years after its completion. The building has a small height to floor ratio, due to the large floor to floor distance of 18 feet.
The Rookery
Architect: Burnham and Root + Frank Lloyd Wright (Interior)
Date: 1888
Style: Romanesque Revival
Address: 209 S. La Salle Street
Height: 180.5’ (12 floors)
Exterior: Brick
Structural
Material: Steel and Masonry
Program: Commercial Offices, Retail
As some other buildings designed by Burnham and Root during this period, the Rookery used a system of both masonry and steel frame. Because steel framed structures were new, they often incorporated both systems into the building’s design.
John Root designed an innovative new foundation system for this buildings immense weight. It was known as the “grillage foundation,” iron rails and structural beams in which cross each other, acting as a sort of rebar in a larger concrete structure.
A while back, as we were just starting to make beta builds of Adobe AIR (then Apollo) available, I was responsible for the HTML side of the runtime from an evangelist perspective. Coming from Adobe Flex, I set out to find a comparable UI framework for JavaScript and quickly landed upon ExtJS. After some planning, we got a few of the evangelists, Jack Slocum and Brian Moeskau together in Las Vegas, NV for some training.
Flash forward two years, and I had the opportunity to sit on an expert panel at the very first Ext Developer Conference in Orlando, FL. The framework has grown by leaps and bounds since first being rolled off from the Yahoo UI library. It's very comparable with Flex from an functionality perspective. There were about 200 developers present. I also sat in on a number of sessions, generally around theming and customization of the look and feel of Ext applications.
To be clear, the above picture is of the Orlando Convention Center. The Ext conference was held at the Ritz Carlton (which had a small, but very well stocked humidor I might add). As a Starwood Preferred Guest, I opted to stay at the Westin, which was by the convention center. I got an amazing room for a great deal, and highly recommend the location if you're ever in Orlando. The hotel didn't exist the last time I was there.
While in Orlando I also got together with my sister, Christy, and her boyfriend Jason for dinner at Maggiano's. I hadn't seen Christy since she lived in Baton Rouge, and we visited for her college graduation. Shortly after they moved to Orlando where Jason is working on his degree. We had a really nice meal with a bottle of wine and friendly conversation over everything from the Large Hadron Collider to Mayan civilization.
Thompson Center
Architect: Murphy Jahn
Date: 1985
Style: Postmodern
Address: 100 W. Randolph Street
Height: 308 ft. (17 Floors)
Exterior: Glass and Steel (curtain wall)
Structural
Material: Steel
Program: Restaurants, Shops, CTA Station, Museum, Commercial Offices, Offices of the State of Illinois
Four term Illinois governor James R. Thompson commissioned the building, which was originally named the State of Illinois Center. The building’s site takes up an entire large city block, with a courtyard in the front, housing a Jean Dubuffet sculpture entitled “Monument with Standing Beast.”
Originally, the building’s exterior was designed to be double paned insulated glass. This ended up being too expensive, so single paned, non-insulated glass was used. The adverse effects are higher cooling and heating costs. Cooling and heating such a large open space often proves to be ineffective, and the building is often subject to Chicago’s hot summers and cold winters.
Thompson Center
Architect: Murphy Jahn
Date: 1985
Style: Postmodern
Address: 100 W. Randolph Street
Height: 308 ft. (17 Floors)
Exterior: Glass and Steel (curtain wall)
Structural
Material: Steel
Program: Restaurants, Shops, CTA Station, Museum, Commercial Offices, Offices of the State of Illinois
Four term Illinois governor James R. Thompson commissioned the building, which was originally named the State of Illinois Center. The building’s site takes up an entire large city block, with a courtyard in the front, housing a Jean Dubuffet sculpture entitled “Monument with Standing Beast.”
Originally, the building’s exterior was designed to be double paned insulated glass. This ended up being too expensive, so single paned, non-insulated glass was used. The adverse effects are higher cooling and heating costs. Cooling and heating such a large open space often proves to be ineffective, and the building is often subject to Chicago’s hot summers and cold winters.
Victoria, BC., Canada.
The Escalade EXT sport utility truck (released alongside its twin, the Chevrolet Avalanche) was introduced in 2002 from the Cadillac division of General Motors. It features a "Convert-a-Cab" composite pickup bed that can be expanded into the truck's cab through a bottom-hinged door. Like the Avalanche, the EXT has four full-size doors and seating for five. The EXT was only offered with the 6.0 L V8 High Output engine. High-intensity discharge headlights were offered for 2003. The Escalade EXT also appears in the movie, The Matrix Reloaded along with the CTS in product placement ads. All Escalade EXTs were built in Mexico.
The Escalade EXT (based on the Cadillac Escalade) was created as a direct competitor to the failed Lincoln Blackwood, a pickup truck based on the Ford F-150. It had competed with the Lincoln Mark LT (now discontinued in the United States and Canada), another F-150-based pickup truck that made its debut in 2005. It now competes with the Ford F-150 Platinum, which is still known as the Lincoln Mark LT in Mexico.
The EXT models were discontinued after the 2013 model year along with the Avalanche. According to Autoblog.com, The EXT was ranked tenth among the worst selling vehicles in the United States for 2013, with only 1,972 units sold. The designer of the 2015 model year said that it could be open to the possibility of revisiting the idea to bring the EXT back in the future, but there are no plans to do so at this point in time. The Escalade EXT was available in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Middle East(Except Israel).
Thompson Center
Architect: Murphy Jahn
Date: 1985
Style: Postmodern
Address: 100 W. Randolph Street
Height: 308 ft. (17 Floors)
Exterior: Glass and Steel (curtain wall)
Structural
Material: Steel
Program: Restaurants, Shops, CTA Station, Museum, Commercial Offices, Offices of the State of Illinois
Four term Illinois governor James R. Thompson commissioned the building, which was originally named the State of Illinois Center. The building’s site takes up an entire large city block, with a courtyard in the front, housing a Jean Dubuffet sculpture entitled “Monument with Standing Beast.”
Originally, the building’s exterior was designed to be double paned insulated glass. This ended up being too expensive, so single paned, non-insulated glass was used. The adverse effects are higher cooling and heating costs. Cooling and heating such a large open space often proves to be ineffective, and the building is often subject to Chicago’s hot summers and cold winters.