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A class project focusing on learning styles, teamwork, and history.
CHICAGO PLAN OF 2008
Chicago has been built on buildings
These buildings have afforded our cityPlaces to live.Places to work.Places to visit.Places to be inspired by.And places to wonder.
Now, you will build your own Chicago.
Make it something inspiring, something to represent the history you’ll learn in the final 3 weeks of the year.
This is as GREAT as you make it.
Project RequirementsAs a class, you will build a “cityscape” of
Chicago.Must fit in the display case near locker banks,
be 3-dimensional, and include a background.Nothing is allowed to be bought “pre-made.”Must be accurate and well detailed. (content)Must “show your work.” (process)Final “Cityscape” must meet all details on
handout. (product)
Project Leader(s)Research and DevelopmentDesign and Materials (Architects)BuildersStructural Engineers Written Record
Project Committees
THE GIANTS
Sears Tower
John Hancock Building
Aon Center
OTHER MIDDLE-AGE CLASSICSSkyscrapers you should know, built from 1960-1990’s
AT&T Corporate Center
IBM Building
Smurfit Stone Building
333 North Wacker
Two Prudential Plaza
CNA Building
Marina City
NBC Tower
R.R. Donnelly Building
Lake Point Tower
311 South Wacker
900 North
Michigan
CHICAGO’S CLASSICS Pre 1950 & still standing
Wrigley Building
#25 – Chicago Board of Trade
Tribune Tower
Navy Pier
Old Water Tower
Marshall Field Building
35 East Wacker
Carson Pirie Scott Building
Carbon and Carbide Building
CHICAGO’S FUTURESix more 1,000 footers, and dozens of new high-rises
Trump Tower
Chicago Spire
Spertus (Institute for Jewish Studies)
One Museum Park
Aqua (coming in ’09)
Park Tower#
The Elysian
600 North Fairbanks
1 South Wacker
Pinnacle
The Streeter
The Regatta
The Shoreham
Skybridge
Chicago Title and Trust
200 North Riverside Plaza
300 North LaSalle
Canyon Ranch
The Tides
340 on the Park
155 North Wacker
Arquitectonica Tower
Grant Park Tower 3
One Museum Park West
The Heritage
Waldorf Astoria
Waterview Tower
CULTURAL INSTITUTIONSArt, Parks, Museums and Sports Arenas
The “Picasso”
Chicago Theatre
Millennium Park
Buckingham Fountain/Grant Park
Lincoln Park/Lincoln Park Zoo
Chicago Stadium
Wrigley Field
US Cellular Field – or Comiskey Park
Soldier Field – New or Old
Museum of Science and Industry
Field Musuem
Set it all to a Theme, perhaps?
Project RequirementsAs a class, you will build a “cityscape” of
Chicago.Must fit in the display case near locker banks,
be 3-dimensional, and include a background.Nothing is allowed to be bought “pre-made.”Must be accurate and well detailed. (content)Must “show your work.” (process)Final “Cityscape” must meet all details on
handout. (product)
Project Leader(s)Research and DevelopmentDesign and Materials (Architects)BuildersStructural Engineers Written Record
Project Committees
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's
blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in
hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical plan, once written,
will not die. - Daniel Burnham, Architect, Author of the Plan
of 1909
