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Chicago’s Union Station was originally designed by architect Daniel Burnham and engineered to accommodate a vertical expansion. Part of his design, resembling a massive limestone pedestal ...
In 1925, when Union Station opened nearly two decades after ... The centralized terminal was part of architect Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago. Burnham died in 1912 and the next year ...
Jack Delano/Library of Congress The Great Hall in Union Station is famous. And it's famously empty. All that grandeur, constructed over a decade from some of Daniel Burnham's final designs ...
When Daniel Burnham’s Plan of Chicago was presented ... the Flatiron Building in New York City and Union Station in Washington. Yet when the plan that has become synonymous with his name was ...
Amtrak will install new information boards in the main hall over the transoms, where Union Station architect and designer Daniel Burnham located the original signage when the station first opened at ...
As inflation continues to grip the nation, Washington D.C.'s historic Union Station stands ... the 112-year-old station, designed by renowned architect Daniel Burnham, now reflects the struggles ...
Daniel Burnham still looms large in ... for adding a 330-room hotel and 404 rental apartments to the top of Union Station in the West Loop. The seven-story addition would extend the existing ...
Regarding the June 19 Metro article “Officials unveil plans for Union Station redevelopment ... the main hall and sequence of Daniel Burnham’s original station? The station’s historic ...
No question about it, Daniel Burnham was a force of nature ... Washington’s majestic if overblown Union Station. But genius had abandoned Burnham, and the years to come also produced such ...