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Cook County & City Hall

Posted by
Steven (Chicagoland, United States) on 25 September 2009 in Architecture and Portfolio.

This building houses not only Chicago City Hall but Cook County government offices as well. This shot was taken from the Cook County "side" of the building. Situated on a city block bounded by Randolph, LaSalle, Washington, and Clark streets, the 11-story structure was designed by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche in the classical revival style. The building was officially dedicated on February 27, 1911. Photo taken September 13, 2009.

SONY DSLR-A300 1/60 second F/8.0 ISO 100 18 mm

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Peter from Amsterdam, Netherlands

Love the reflecting light on the columns

25 Sep 2009 7:27am

Elena Kotrotsou from Drossia, Greece

Fantastic building and blue sky!

25 Sep 2009 9:00am

john4jack from Corvallis, Oregon, United States

Neat POV.

25 Sep 2009 2:13pm

MARIANA from Waterloo, Canada

Super framing and POV !

25 Sep 2009 5:06pm

Lalena from Barcelona, Spain

Great perspective. Fantastic reflecting light on the colums!! :-)

25 Sep 2009 6:03pm

Curly from South Shields, United Kingdom

Impressive building Steve, nice HDR again.

25 Sep 2009 6:30pm

Ronnie 2¢ from Atlantic Shores, United Kingdom

Them there Corinthians sure did well selling those columns . . hee hee . . love those patches of dappled light on the building, too.

26 Sep 2009 11:03am

Onlymehdi from Wayne, United States

very very very wow

26 Sep 2009 1:58pm

zOOm from Paris, France

Once again, a very effective HDR Steven. What a blue sky ! Perfect compo.

26 Sep 2009 3:45pm

Earnest from Oklahoma, United States

Nice -- I like this one because the HDRness is less apparent.

26 Sep 2009 11:59pm

MadScientist from Düsseldorf, Germany

Interesting architecture. You can almost feel how the architect struggled with melding the needs of a functional building with the aesthetics of the belle époque.

28 Sep 2009 10:09am

dj.tigersprout from New York City, United States

imposing -- but beautiful lines!

29 Sep 2009 1:49pm