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“Welcome to Tribuneville.” Photograph © Michael Salisbury. All photographs courtesy of 150 Media Stream and MAS Context, shared with permission
With its lengthy vertical strains and neo-Gothic options, the architectural marvel that’s Tribune Tower in Chicago has an unorthodox origin story. House to the newspaper’s operations, the now-iconic constructing resulted from a world competitors hosted in 1922 by the co-publishers. Greater than 260 architects from 23 nations submitted designs that will home the newspaper, with New York-based John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood finally profitable the bid.
A mission by architectural cartoonist Klaus and MAS Context brings this historical past to mild. “Welcome to Tribuneville: An Imaginary Vision of an Old Chicago That Could Have Been” options 60 drawings of never-made buildings submitted to the competition put in at 150 Media Stream. Situated within the foyer of 150 N. Riverside Plaza, the set up has featured a number of digital works throughout its 89 LED blades since 2017. A press release in regards to the mission provides:
Whereas many of the designs have been misplaced to the collective creativeness, the parade of ingenious proposals ranges from the superbly elegant to the hilariously wacky, from the neo-Gothic to the Beaux Arts, from the hyper-ornamental Artwork Nouveau to the superbly crafted Artwork Deco, from spiky Expressionism to bare functionalism, and past…With “Welcome to Tribuneville,” Klaus creates an alternate imaginative and prescient of Chicago by asking, “what if all the entries to the 1922 Tribune Tower Competition had been built?”
Spanning greater than 150 ft extensive and stretching 22 ft excessive, the illuminated set up imagines the Chicago skyline with buildings in myriad types and shapes augmented by improbable and futuristic options. Blimp-like autos fly amid the buildings, a monorail runs the place the “El” may in any other case stand, and walkways crammed with pedestrians are elevated excessive above the road.
“Welcome to Tribuneville” is on view by December 30, with a public reception scheduled for October 8.
Element of “Welcome to Tribuneville.” Photograph © Michael Salisbury
Element of “Welcome to Tribuneville.” Photograph © Michael Salisbury
Element of “Welcome to Tribuneville”(2024). Picture © Klaus
Element of “Welcome to Tribuneville”(2024). Picture © Klaus
Element of “Welcome to Tribuneville”(2024). Picture © Klaus
#structure
#Chicago
#drawing
#set up
#Klaus
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