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The building was designed by Rudolf Steiner and named after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. [1] It includes two performance halls (1500 seats), gallery and lecture spaces, a library, a bookstore, and administrative spaces for the Anthroposophical Society ; neighboring buildings house the society's research and educational facilities.
The buildings and architecture of Chicago reflect the city's history and multicultural heritage, featuring prominent buildings in a variety of styles. Most structures downtown were destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 (an exception being the Water Tower ).
Rudolf Steiner designs second Goetheanum after first was destroyed by fire in 1922. Work commences 1924 and is completed in 1928. Michel de Klerk dies. 1924. Germany adopts the Dawes plan. Architects more inclined to produce low-cost housing than pursue utopian ideas about glass. Hugo Häring designs a farm complex. It uses expressive pitched ...
The house where Rudolf Steiner was born, in present-day Croatia. Steiner's father, Johann(es) Steiner (1829–1910), left a position as a gamekeeper [29] in the service of Count Hoyos in Geras, northeast Lower Austria to marry one of the Hoyos family's housemaids, Franziska Blie (1834 Horn – 1918, Horn), a marriage for which the Count had refused his permission.
Glessner House, designated on October 14, 1970, as one of the first official Chicago Landmarks Night view of the top of The Chicago Board of Trade Building at 141 West Jackson, an address that has twice housed Chicago's tallest building Chicago Landmark is a designation by the Mayor and the City Council of Chicago for historic sites in Chicago, Illinois. Listed sites are selected after meeting ...
The style had heavy influence on American architecture after its birth in England during the mid-18th century. [7] Neo-Gothic is a founding style seen in other late 19th century and early 20th century buildings in Chicago, and was a long-lasting style around America of the time in general.
Steinway Hall (1896 – 1970) was an 11-story office building, and ground-floor theater (later cinema), located at 64 East Van Buren Street in Chicago, Illinois. [1] The theater had at least 14 names over the years, opening in 1896 as the Steinway Music Hall, and closing in the late 1960s as Capri Cinema.
The Tribune Tower is a 463-foot-tall (141 m), 36-floor neo-Gothic skyscraper located at 435 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, United States.The early 1920s international design competition for the tower became a historic event in 20th-century architecture. [1]