Chicago is obviously one of the best cities for architecture and historic skyscrapers. As an architecture enthusiast it was awesome to visit and explore the city.
The soundtrack, the shots, and the narration together form a perfect representation of that famous Chicago-style charm. That Chicago accent lecturing us on the details of Chicago's architecture with that appropriate music filling the background WAS SOO ON POINT.
I love the classic architecture from the 20's and 30's those buildings look like they were chiseled out of stone. it's sad all of these classic masterpieces are being over shadowed by this new architecture. Chicagos best skyline was in the 1980's it was a nice mix of old and new.
@@carstarsarstenstesenn most of the modern styles are ruining Chicago especially the supertalls, I think that we should build like the originals because those are beautiful and resemble Chicago's identity.
Would be nice if a couple of Postwar buildings could have been included. One is the orginal Prudential Building, the first building over 600 feet in Chicago. Another one is the Alcoa Building, located in the South Loop area. The Alcoa Building, which probably has a new name by now, is one of the world's few aluminum frame skyscrapers. I presume it is still there but I cannot locate it through a search. I did see it on street level back in the day, and the aluminum girder were visible externally. Otherwise, I recognized every building but one and knew the names extant in the 1950s and 1960s. Even then, a number of them did not bear their original names, apparently.
Just for the record, the dome on top of the Hotel Intercontinental, the former Sheraton Hotel, does not contain an intergalactic communications center, but rather elevator machinery.
5:16 In regards to the Mather Tower headquarters of the Mather Stock Car Company, Chicago itself is billed as the meat-processing and railroad capital of the United States and the world as a whole!
6:31 Carbide and Carbon Building:...."inspired by a champaign bottle"...: During Prohibition ? It could be that precisely because of this someone's desire for a good alcoholic beverage ? 😀
It's all so beautiful. I think you couldn't build so pretty today. Taller probably, stronger maybe, more hightech sure. But not this beautiful. Never. You just don't have the workmanship, pride and dedicated manpower today like back then, to do such things. Find me a stonemason, a bricklayer, a carpenter, woodcarver, ironsmith to do this... ain't gonna happen.
I agree with you on the more ornate designs, but I don't see those giant flat and repetitive concrete and glass facades like on the Merchandise Mart as beautiful.
