Lost Chicago Architecture

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The Prentice Women's Hospital, designed by Bertrand Goldberg in 1975 was destroyed just 38 years later to make way for a Northwestern University laboratory building that could have been built almost anywhere in Streeterville. It represented Goldberg's advanced thinking in hospital design and was an important building in architectural design history and construction techniques.

Bertrand Goldberg, a Chicagoan, was a student of Mies van der Rohe at the pre-war Bauhaus in Weimar. An acclaimed architect and an important innovator of hospital designs, he is perhaps best known for his twin towers, Marina City on the Chicago River, referred to by some as "corn cobs".  

Some other items of note in these photos is the Mies inspired neighbor to the east, The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, 1973, by Gene Summers of C.F. Murphy Associates.  Like Goldberg, Summers, was another prote'ge'e of Mies but followed more closely the style of his philosophic principles. This building no longer fulfills its original use and is presently underutilized, having been replaced by a newer building a block away and renamed by its donor. We fear its fate.

Across the street in the foreground is a vacant one block site, fenced preventing  entry by the public since 2009. This is where the 1955 landmark, Lakeside Veterans Hospital stood until its unfortunate demolition.

 

 

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[stuny]

Quite lovely, and thank you for expanding my Chicago architecture knowledge.

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19 hours ago, war said:

The Prentice Women's Hospital, designed by Bertrand Goldberg in 1975 was destroyed just 38 years later to make way for a Northwestern University laboratory building that could have been built almost anywhere in Streeterville. It represented Goldberg's advanced thinking in hospital design and was an important building in architectural design history and construction techniques.

Bertrand Goldberg, a Chicagoan, was a student of Mies van der Rohe at the pre-war Bauhaus in Weimar. An acclaimed architect and an important innovator of hospital designs, he is perhaps best known for his twin towers, Marina City on the Chicago River, referred to by some as "corn cobs".  

Some other items of note in these photos is the Mies inspired neighbor to the east, The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, 1973, by Gene Summers of C.F. Murphy Associates.  Like Goldberg, Summers, was another prote'ge'e of Mies but followed more closely the style of his philosophic principles. This building no longer fulfills its original use and is presently underutilized, having been replaced by a newer building a block away and renamed by its donor. We fear its fate.

Across the street in the foreground is a vacant one block site, fenced preventing  entry by the public since 2009. This is where the 1955 landmark, Lakeside Veterans Hospital stood until its unfortunate demolition.

 

 

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