Yes, it’s that time again! The Navy Pier winter lights are up.
Day 333: McCormick Fountain
The fountain outside McCormick place frozen in time. You can see the water stopped in time and the rich colors.
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Day 332: A Walk at the Pier
A beautiful dusk walk at Navy Pier.
Day 331: Navy Pier
The headhouse at Navy Pier. For more historical information on Navy Pier, click here.
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Day 330: Roosevelt Building
Roosevelt University has broken ground on a 32-story academic building that will be the second tallest university building in the country and the sixth tallest in the world. A unique vertical campus, it will have classrooms, laboratories, offices, dorm rooms, a dining hall, fitness facilities and student services all under one roof. Roosevelt is not just constructing a building; it is creating a great university experience.
The construction of this building coincides with a general revitalization of the Wabash Street corridor. Once a dank, foreboding side street lined with seedy dives and abandoned buildings, in 2007 the City of Chicago began a program of turning it into a bright, airy, lively center of commerce and transportation. This building is the perfect complement.
Its festive angles and glass facade add to the formerly darkened streetscape below. It also replaced a time-ravaged 18-story building and a surface parking lot, neither of which contributed much to the neighborhood.
At 32 stories, it is the tallest educational building in Chicago and a prominent symbol of Roosevelt University in an area crowded with urban colleges of varying pedigrees. While its function is utilitarian, its form is certainly a statement by the University (merely a College just months before the announcement) that it is a major player in midwestern education. The students who live and learn in this building can be proud of the structure.
Day 329: Votto
Joey Votto of the Cincinnati Reds trying to make a play at first at a Cubs game in September. With this one done in HDR you can see all of the dirt flying up as the Cubs slide back to first.
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Day 328: Auditorium Theater
The Auditorium Theater in Chicago is one of the best-known designs of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan. Completed in 1889, the building is located on South Michigan Avenue, at the northwest corner of Michigan Avenue and Congress Parkway. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on September 15, 1976. In addition, it is a historic district contributing property for the Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District. Since 1947, the Auditorium Building has been the home of Roosevelt University.
The Auditorium Theatre is part of the Auditorium Building and is located at 50 East Congress Parkway. The theater was the first home of the Chicago Civic Opera and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra debuted on October 16, 1891 and made its home in the Auditorium Theatre until moving to Orchestra Hall in 1904.[5] Theodore Roosevelt gave his famous Bull Moose speech in 1912 at the Auditorium and was nominated for President of the United States by the independent National Progressive Party.
On October 31, 1967 the Auditorium Theatre reopened and through 1975, the Auditorium served as Chicago’s premier rock venue. It was declared a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior in 1975. Some interior details were probably drawn by Frank Lloyd Wright, who started in Sullivan’s office as a draftsman in 1887.
Day 327: The Clock
The clock on top of the Wrigley building, done in HDR. This building is so full of details that are really called out more when done in HDR vs. the standard digital photo. Either way this building is absolutely beautiful, but nicely calls out the details in this HDR version.
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Day 326: Water-like
The Aqua building done in HDR. With the details and the clouds reflecting in the windows of the building it almost makes it look like there is water like a puddle within the building.
Day 325: Monaco
The Dodge Monaco done in HDR. I love spending time and redoing some of my older photos in HDR after awhile to see how much better they look. To me it makes the picture more realistic and the colors stand out much more.
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