TOURS 6 al 10 de abril

Discover the Frank Gehry-designed Jay

Pritzker Pavilion, the most sophisticated

outdoor concert venue of its kind in the

United States.

See yourself and a reflection of the city

skyline in artist Anish Kapoor’s interactive

sculpture that sits in the center of the Park.

Become a kid again when you stand in

front of artist Jaume Plensa’s 50-foot glass

block towers of flowing water that project

the video images of 1,000 different

Chicagoans.

One of the largest fountains in the world,

the Buckingham Fountain measures

85m/280ft in diameter. It features 134 jets

powered by 3 pumps.

The fountain's hourly 20 minute water

display starts with small sprays. While the

basins are filled more and more jets are

activated until it reaches its climax when

the central jet pushes water up to a height

of 46m/150ft. The animation is best seen

at dusk - after 8 pm - when it is

accompanied with music and beautifully

animated with a now computerized

choreography of color spotlights.

The Museum has over 2,000

exhibits, displayed in 75 major

halls

Willis Tower (formerly named, and still commonly

referred to as Sears Tower) is a 108-story, 1451-

foot (442 m) skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. At the

time of its completion in 1974, it was the tallest

building in the world, surpassing the World Trade

Center towers in New York, and it held this rank for

nearly 25 years. The Willis Tower is the tallest

building in the United States and the fifth-tallest

freestanding structure in the world, as well as the

fifth tallest building in the world to the roof.

The Art Institute of Chicago,

founded in 1879 as both a

museum and school, first stood

on the southwest corner of State

and Monroe Streets. It opened

on its present site at Michigan

Avenue and Adams Street in

1893. Built on rubble from the

1871 Chicago fire, the museum

housed a collection of plaster

casts and had a visionary

purpose: to acquire and exhibit

art of all kinds and to conduct

programs of education. The

collection now encompasses

more than 5,000 years of human

expression from cultures around

the world, and the school's

graduate program is continually

ranked as one of the best in the

country. Within the next decade,

a new complex will continue this

process of growth.

The Trump International Hotel and Tower,

also known as Trump Tower Chicago and

locally as the Trump Tower, is a

skyscraper condo-hotel in downtown

Chicago, Illinois. The building, named after

real estate developer Donald Trump, was

designed by architect Adrian Smith of

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Bovis Lend

Lease built the 98-story structure, which

reached a height of 1,389 feet (423 m)

including its spire, its roof topping out at

1,170 feet (360 m). It is adjacent to the

main branch of the Chicago River, with a

view of the entry to Lake Michigan beyond

a series of bridges over the river. The

building received publicity when the winner

of the first season of The Apprentice

television show, Bill Rancic, chose to

manage the construction of the tower.

Aqua is an 86-story mixed-use

residential skyscraper in the

Lakeshore East development

in downtown Chicago designed

in the Postmodern architectural

style. Designed by a team led

by Jeanne Gang, the building

is the tallest in the world to

have a woman as lead

architect, at 859 ft (262 m). It

includes one level of parking

below ground..

The building's eight-story, 140,000 sq ft (13,000 m2) base is

topped by a 82,550 sq ft (7,669 m2) terrace with gardens,

gazebos, pools, hot tubs, a walking/running track and a fire

pit. Each floor will cover approximately 16,000 sq ft (1,500

m2). The Aqua was named the Emporis Skyscraper Award

2009 skyscraper of the year and was shortlisted in 2010 for

the biannual International Highrise Award

The John Hancock Tower, officially

named Hancock Place and

colloquially known as The

Hancock, is a 60-story, 790-foot

(241 m) skyscraper in Boston. The

tower, the tallest in the city, was

designed by Henry N. Cobb of the

firm now known as Pei Cobb Freed

& Partners and was completed in

1976. In 1977, the American

Institute of Architects presented the

firm with a National Honor Award

for the building and in 2011

conferred on it the AIA Twenty-five

Year Award. It has been the tallest

building in Boston for more than 30

years, and is the tallest building in

New England, as well as the 198th

tallest building in the world.

Discover the exciting diversity of Chicago architecture on

this wide-ranging odyssey that traces the city’s

development from its founding to the very present. This

bus tour covers 30 miles of Chicago design, with a route

that covers the Loop, Hyde Park, the Gold Coast, the

Lakefront, two university campuses, and several parks and

residential neighborhoods. Stops include the Rookery in

downtown Chicago, Mies van der Rohe’s IIT campus and

the Robie House in Hyde Park. (Interior tour provided by

the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust.)

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