The low sun casts light onto the stark white station house hovering over the downtown streets named Madison and Wabash. The darker setting of Chicago’s gritty urban loop provides a sharp contrast to the white-washed facade of this ancient train station. Literally ancient, this structure has been around since1896.
To photograph this hanging architectural cloud, I stood on the curb and framed the depth of the shot with my iPhone. Once traffic to passed, I hopped out into the street and snapped this shot with Target bags hanging from each of my arms. Notice the car turning onto the street aiming for me. I leaped out of the way from the car driving into the sharp sunset.
After climbing up the stairs into the cloud I boarded a railplane where this photo was post-processed and uploaded to another sky.
I like how the word “Architectural” has no descenders. The word sits flat on a ground, just like a brick.
It’s too bad this station will be torn down and rebuilt in 2014.
I shot the Madison/Wabash station in HDR back in 2007.
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These photos are from the East side of the station. The photo in this blog post is from the west side of the station. I should take and HDR of the west side of the station like in this blog post.
Actually, with the upcoming renovations, I should finish up my series of shooting all the CTA loop stations in HDR.
It’s getting torn down? That stinks. I wonder what the architectural plans are. Probably some boring-looking glass facade with no personality.
That is a really dynamic photo. I never noticed that floating archi cloud before. I’d like to see another photo where more of the left and right of the structure are shown to give more context of how it’s floating. This is probably the best cropping because it keeps the focus on the central feature. I like seeing the person crossing the street. It heightens the sense of mass that this building has.