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One Illinois Center
Hyatt Regency Chicago
Big Stan - Aon Center (wikipedia)
Chicago, Illinois - looking south from near 41.889723, -87.624144
July 9, 2003
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One and Two Prudential Plaza next to the Aon Center originially known as the Standard Oil Building ("Big Stan")
Downtown Chicago
The Clarence F. Buckingham Memorial Fountain in Chicago, Illinois during an evening water and light show. (3885)
The Aon Center in downtown Chicago is 83 floors and 1,136 feet tall. It was the tallest building in Chicago when it was completed in 1974 and was then known as the Standard Oil Building.
The lights of Chicago illuminate the clouds drifting by in the sky. (6551)
The skyline of Chicago, Illinois as view from Guaranteed Rate Field, home of the Chicago White Sox. (5898)
Jolly Cola (bottled by Foroya Bjor across the street) is way more common in the Faroes than Coca Cola
The skyline of Chicago, Illinois stands tall behind Soldier Field, home of the NFL's Chicago Bears. (7602)
One Prudential Plaza (left), formerly known as the Prudential Building, was built in 1955 as the the headquarters for Prudential's Mid-America company. Designed by Naess & Murphy, , a precursor to C.F. Murphy & Associates and later Murphy/Jahn Architects, it was the first new downtown skyscraper built in Chicago in 21 years, and the last building ever connected to the Chicago Tunnel Company's tunnel network. When finished the 44-story structure, facaded in vertical strips of limestone and ridged aluminum, had the highest roof in Chicago with only the statue of Ceres on the Chicago Board of Trade higher. Its mast served as a broadcasting antenna for Chicago's WGN-TV.
Two Prudential Plaza (center) was built in 1990 to the design of Steven T. Wright with the firm, Loebl, Schlossman & Hackl. The 995-foot tower was, at the time of completion, the world's second tallest reinforced concrete building. Its distinctive shape features stacked chevron setbacks on the north & south sides, a pyramidal peak rotated 45°, and an 80-foot spire. One and Two Prudential Plaza were sold in May 2006 for $470 million to BentleyForbes.
The Aon Center (right), formerly the Amoco Building and the Standard Oil Building, at 200 East Randolph Street was built in 1973 as the headquarters for the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. With 83 floors and a height of 1,136 feet (346 m), it was the tallest building in Chicago, the fourth-tallest in the world and the world's tallest marble-clad building at completion. Nicknamed "Big Stan," the 1,136-foot tall skyscraper, designed by Edward Durell Stone & Associates and Perkins & Will, was originally sheathed in 43,000 Italian Carrara marble cladding panels, which were replaced by two-inch-thick Mt. Airy granite panels at a cost of about $80 million. When the building was sold in 2001, it officially became known as the Aon Center.
Trump Tower and the John Hancock Center tower over the city of Chicago, as viewed from the Willis Tower Skydeck. (3698)
I think I found a new favorite place to watch the sun rise over the City of Chicago. The downside, however, is this location is just short of impossible to get to.
This location is behind McCormick Place and to take this specific picture I rode my bike nearly ten miles down the lakefront. If I drove my car and wanted to park free, it’d be about 3/4 of a mile walk. If I didn’t mind paying, it’d be at least $20.00.
None of the options seem overly appealing.
Anyway, this image is taken from behind McCormick Place looking past Burnham Harbor at Soldier Field and the rest of Chicago’s Skyline. It’s no secret I’m in love with Chicago’s ever-changing skyline, but so often we see images taken from the Adler Planetarium that I think it’s nice to mix things up a bit and include Soldier Field.
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Traffic along the Dan Ryan Expressway races in and out of Chicago, Illinois. (2402)
One of my favorite things about Chicago is how different the view of the skyline can be just by moving a block or two in another direction.
When my wife and I were preparing for our wedding, we toured a few hotels for our wedding guests to stay in. I was like a child in one of the hotels because it’s location was in the heart of the city. As we went from room to room, I couldn’t help but stare out the windows at the city. I missed most of the presentation from the hotel representative because Chicago is one of the greatest cities in the world, with one of the greatest skylines to match.
This view is from the Near West Loop, not far from the southern tip of Goose Island.
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Near the shores of Lake Michigan, Soldier Field is lit up for a Chicago Bears game in Chicago, Illinois. (7591)
The Aon Center at 200 E. Randolph St., Chicago. Formerly the Standard Oil Building and later, the Amoco Building.
83 floors, completed in 1973.
12 foot diameter drill bit. Looks like main bit cuts about a 6 foot hole and two wing like cutters enlarge it to 12 feet. On largest size of image, note threads of fluid hanging from wings. The drilling fluid used is quite viscous.
After getting into Klaksvik, we discovered that "Saturday Night" is actually a pretty quiet time, and most places are closed.
For dinner, we decided to check out Big Stan, which was quite interesting, since the owners of Big Stan are a pair of brothers from Swaziland.
Yes, that's two guys from Swaziland. Selling schwarma. In the Faroe Islands.
God bless globalism.
The Aon Center at 200 E. Randolph St., Chicago. Formerly the Standard Oil Building and later, the Amoco Building.
83 floors, completed in 1973.
Anderson drilling rig, 93 feet tall, weighing 250,000 pounds can drill holes up to 30 feet in diameter. In Citrus Heights, rig "Big Stan" is drilling 12 ft diameter holes 50-75 feet deep as part of a sewer project.
After getting into Klaksvik, we discovered that "Saturday Night" is actually a pretty quiet time, and most places are closed.
For dinner, we decided to check out Big Stan, which was quite interesting, since the owners of Big Stan are a pair of brothers from Swaziland.
Yes, that's two guys from Swaziland. Selling schwarma. In the Faroe Islands.
God bless globalism.
Yesterday I walked to work along the lake front path... I forgot how windy it was supposed to be. All the way to Navy Pier I was shivering, it looked beautiful though
Photo: Lara Dengs
100 Monkeys Show in Cologne (Germany)
My recent photos on Flickriver (lara.photofreaks.ws)
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Aon tower, center, the North American headquarters of Aon Corp. (formerly the headquarters of Standard Oil and later, Amoco).
Big Stan. This isn't the most interesting building, from an aesthetic standpoint, but there is something quite striking in it's simplicity. I felt the same way about the WTC, the not very interesting part..... but now that they're gone, I no longer feel as indifferent to the way they once looked. For many years, I never really "saw" this building in the Chicago skyline, but now every time I see it, I notice. And I remember.
Its original facade was made with marble from Carrara, the same Italian quarry Michelangelo used for "David." It was replaced with granite from North Carolina. The Aon Center is the 3rd largest building in Chicago. Born as "The Standard Oil Building", it was nicknamed “Big Stan”. Click the photo to enlarge.
Near the entrance to the new Modern Wing at the Art Institute. That's Big Stan (a.k.a. the Aon Center) sneaking in off to the left.
Anish Kapoor? Although he is British, it doesn't quite have the same ring to it. However, his Cloud Gate sculpture makes for some interesting views of it's surroundings.
poza preluata de pe www.impawards.com/2008/big_stan.html
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