A LEFT-EYED VIEW

Look Up

Posted by Steven (Chicagoland, United States) on 20 November 2009 in Architecture and Portfolio.

Photo of the John Hancock Tower dwarfing the famous Water Tower in Chicago along Michigan Avenue. In the background of this photo is the Palmolive Building. Built for one of the world's leading soap manufacturers, this office building ("a monument to cleanliness") was the first commercial skyscraper built far from "the Loop" - at the northern end of Michigan Avenue. It is one of the country's premier Art Deco-style skyscrapers. A navigational beacon operated atop the building from 1930-1981. It was known as the Playboy Building from 1965 to 1989, when it served as headquarters for Playboy magazine.

Photo taken November 6, 2009.

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