Chicago Architecture Biennial

'Heliomorphic Chicago'

John Hill
18. setembro 2017
All photographs by John Hill/World-Architects

The number of famous buildings – skyscrapers and otherwise – within Chicago is staggering: John Hancock Center, Willis Tower, Marina City, the James R. Thompson Center, and 860-880 Lake Shore Drive, to name just a handful. How these buildings compare to their idealized solar-oriented forms is the purpose of Heliomorphic Chicago, which is comprised primarily of a grid of paired buildings spread across the floor of the Chicago Cultural Center’s Yates Hall. It is fun to walk about the models, peering down on the stretched and torqued versions of classic buildings that in many cases aren’t all that different from their originals.

A reimagined Loop with buildings angled for solar orientation is mounted to a partition and greets visitors entering the west end of Yates Hall.
One of buildings modeled by Waldheim and his team is Helmut Jahn's unmistakable James R. Thompson Center, which may be sold by the State of Illinois and therefore faces the threat of demolition.

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