Chicago Tribune contest from 100 years ago comes to life
Photo: Carrie Shepherd/AxiosVisitors to a Loop office building can experience a live-action film of an alternative Chicago.The big picture: "Welcome to Tribuneville: An Imaginary Vision of an Old Chicago That Could Have Been" is a digital, animated arts exhibition that shows what Michigan Avenue and Streeterville might look like if century-old drawings came to life.The illustrations are animated and projected on large vertical panels at 150 Media Stream, the public art installation at 150 N. Riverside.Flashback: In June 1922, the Chicago Tribune launched an international architectural competition for a new headquarters, calling for "the most beautiful office building in...
A Cartoonist's Immersive Vision of What Chicago's Architecture Could Have Been Is on Display in One of the City's New Icons
“For Chicago, the most beautiful building in the world.” That was the goal of the 1922 Chicago Tribune competition for a new headquarters to be built at the prime location of Michigan Avenue and the Chicago River. An ornate neo-Gothic design by the American architects Raymond Hood and John Mead Howells was chosen and built, but there were 262 other entries from architects both acclaimed and little-known, representing 23 countries. What would Chicago look like if those had been constructed?