history is here. wonderful shot.

I love old buildings, they have so much character and the newer ones are so plain. This is a really awesome shot. I love that lamp post in there too. It gives the shot even more charater then the building alone does.

Excellent POV employed to capture these architectural marvels, plus the irresistable multiglobular lamp post. Tons of repetitive features in this shot.

excelent composition , beautiful building , perspective and pov.

how they grow and change wonderful capture warm hugs that smile, Linda Kaye

(craig: you're a closet architect. I like that!) I don't know if you know this, but you actually captured a wonderful microcosm of Chicago's architecture. You have the old, the early modern & the modern all in one shot. The historical is the main building, using (I assume) a british gothic/medieval or maybe renaissance style. The turrets at the top suggest medieval (ie, castle guard posts, etc); but the windows suggest renaissance. Anyway, though the highrise was wholly modern--and invented here in the windy city--for a long time, American architects designed older European facades for them, kind of stretching the old European styles across many floors---something, btw, which modernists deplored, calling it "ersatz," while others said why not let the city be a museum of all architectural styles, blown up high enough to broadcast them across the skies! Look in any large American city---incl Seattle---and you'll see that museum across their downtowns. Then you have the building on the left--in front--which has older styling but clearly modern lines: Sheer verticals for each window bay, and a large amount of window space--made possible by the steel frame (which took the "load" off of the stone and allowed the wall to open up for glass). This kind of design was the forerunner of the modern glass/steel structure. Then you have--right--a snippet of the "Chicago Window": You can't see it here, but it's two sash windows surrounding an unmovable window, the unmovable window being wide, thus making wide windows overall---that also added to the glass/steel look to come. Finally (breath), the glass & steel structures behind them all, towering like ghosts in the background which are the outcome of all this evolution: Sheer walls of sheen & sinewy steel, where the steel girders are thin & almost like "air". Then you add to it the wonderful street lamp--frontmost--which is probably turn of the 20th C, as it refers to old 19th C styles. And the lines? All are tilted to the center, the lamp is in perfect line with the bays of the building behind it & the building behind that. (Photographic intuition!) And you shot aove street level so we don't see the street, sidewalk or entryways: Just buildings reaching for the sky. (Sky-scrapers.) I don't know if you knew all this 'technically', but you saw it all aesthetically, and you captured a very American and Chicago trait to perfection. You did the Loop proud. A really fine shot.

an other great architectural image!

What a beautiful building indeed! ..... Such a shame...We do the same in the UK>... surround beauty with concrete and steel.... No...... Not the way... Still a lovely shot... Rob...

Beautiful and well done. Excellent.

A nice contrast between the old and new and I love the lamp post, Great.

Lovely building! I love the windows! They have such variety yet are grouped, with a row of four on top and bottom and various sets of two rows of four in the middle. A very curious and pleasing design. Wonderful addition of the light post. Beautiful capture!

ohhh...love this building!!

Awesome looking...cool light post

Lovely!