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Axis Apartments is a sixty-story high rise apartment tower in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, it was completed in 1986 as Onterie Center. The name was a conflation of "Ontario" and "Erie", the streets at its two entrances.
Chicago has always played a prominent role in the development of skyscrapers and three past buildings have been the tallest building in the United States. Being the inventor of the skyscraper, Chicago went through a very early high-rise construction boom that lasted from the early 1920s to the late 1930s, during which nine of the city's 100 ...
The list of Northwestern University buildings encompasses the two main campuses of Northwestern University, located in Evanston, Illinois and Chicago, Illinois.The Evanston site contains approximately 150 buildings on its 240-acre (0.97 km 2) campus.
Fazlur Rahman Khan was born on 3 April 1929 to a Bengali Muslim family in Dhaka, Bengal Presidency (present-day Bangladesh). [13] He was from and brought up in the Khan Bari of Bhandarikandi in Madaripur, Faridpur District.
Goettsch Partners and Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture designed the buildings. [6] The complex contains two towers connected by a central podium. [7] When completed, the taller of the two towers was to be the eighth-tallest structure in Chicago with an anticipated 78 stories, [8] although a final height was determined and a spire may have been added to the design.
Parkway Gardens Apartment Homes, built from 1950 to 1955, was the last of Henry K. Holsman's many housing development designs in Chicago. Holsman began designing low-income housing in Chicago in the 1910s when an urban housing shortage developed after World War I.
Born 3 April 1929, Dhaka, British Raj Died 27 March 1982, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Resting place Chicago, Illinois, USA Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Ahsanullah Engineering College, University of Dhaka, (now Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology) Master's degree on Structural Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Chicago River is the south border (right) of the Near North Side and Streeterville and the north border (left) of Chicago Loop, Lakeshore East and Illinois Center (from Lake Shore Drive's Link Bridge with Marina Towers at jog in the river in the center)