Chicago - Hotel Intercontinental

[ddny]

Architect: Walter W. Ahlschlager

Year: 1929

Style: Spanish Revival

Description: A very beautiful building. Don't know much about it. Click here for information: http://www.skyscrapers.com/re/en/wm/bu/117149/

[Fabb]

I really hate the top.
If I remember correctly, it appears in The fugitive with Harrison Ford.

[dbhstockton]

More Middle-Eastern style than Spanish. *Very interesting, though. *Architects explored all kinds of non-European and medieval influences in the 20's.

[TLOZ Link5]

I'd say it's more Moorish-styled than generally Middle Eastern. *So it somewhat counts as Spanish Revival.

[dbhstockton]

I'd say Moorish too, but the frieze is so distinctly Mesopotamian. *No need to peg it in any one style, either. *Like I said, they experimented with all kinds of influences in the twenties, from Babylonian to Mayan to Byzantine.

(Edited by dbhstockton at 11:11 pm on April 6, 2003)

[Bennie B]

The buildings around it look pretty cool, too, especially the tower with the flying buttresses on top--a real showstopper.

[dbhstockton]

That's the Tribune building on *the right and the Wrigley on the left -- there's a thread for the Wrigley here. *The Tribune building is also from 1922 and was designed by Raymond Hood, who did the American Radiator Building, McGraw-Hill Building, Daily News Building, and worked on *Rockefeller Center. *It was the building that really launched his career -- he won an international competition for the design.

[Fabb]

He was inspired by the Rouen cathedral.
Dozens of stones from famous monuments all around the world are included in the wall and visible from the street level.

[Bennie B]

Quote: from dbhstockton on 12:28 am on April 7, 2003

he won an international competition for the design.

I guess sometimes these things work out! *(heh)