Monday, November 08, 2004

Cruisin' Chicago

This sunny Saturday, Mathias and I took the 90 min river tour run by the Chicago Architectural Foundation. Chicago is an architectural Mecca and the birthplace of the skyscraper, which evolved as the city was being rebuilt after being virtually destroyed in the Great Fire of 1871. I now understand the finer points of contextualism, neoclassicalism and the art deco style.


We ended up in Millenium park where they have "The Bean", a reflective sculpture shaped like a red blood cell.

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