Architecture & Tribune Tower (intersection of tags)
76 Architecture posts • 48 Tribune Tower posts • 12 in common
- Discovering that your dad worked on the Tribune TowerToday via my blog, someone found out that their dad installed the giant broadcasting antennae on the Tribune Tower in the 1930s. My post about the Tribune Tower observation deck included those who inscribed their names on the wall below…
- Tribune Tower’s mystery rooftop roomWhat stands at the very top of the iconic Tribune Tower? And how I did I discover this room?
- I did a five-foot wide pencil rubbing on my last day in the Tribune TowerGoodbye, Tower. I just left the Tribune Tower for the last time. On my way out, I made a giant five-foot wide pencil rubbing. Here’s a four-minute video with me narrating its creation along with a time-lapse. Etched into the…
- Why I’m not that sad to leave the Tribune TowerMany of the Tribune journalists have been tweeting and writing emotional stories about leaving the Tribune Tower. The Tribune big columnists are writing some very poignant stories. Page two columnist John Kass, architecture critic Blair Kamin, Pulitzer-Prize winner Mary Schmich…
- Tribune Tower plans to become a rocketshipOne more week in the Tribune Tower. Next Friday, we move. Word around is that right after we move, the entire building is being gutted. Right away. We aren’t allowed to come back. The following Monday we immediately go to…
- Tribune Tower’s End of Story tshirtIn less than two months, the Chicago Tribune will be moving out of Tribune Tower, into the Prudential Building four blocks south on Michigan Avenue. From 1925 to 2018, we’ve been here for 93 years. And now we are leaving…
- Chicago skyline from RiverwalkThe sun sets on Monday, two days after the Chicago River was dyed green for the St. Patrick’s Day festival. The Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower, and Equitable Building admire how bright green the river is. You can’t quite tell, but…
- A secret closet in the Tribune Tower has one of my photos on displayThe Tribune Tower has many locked doors leading to secret closets. Walk down any hallway, and you are sure to encounter a locked door that leads to a mysterious place. One of these such doors is on the 14th floor…
- Woodpecker on Tribune TowerWhile at work on the 14th floor of the Tribune Tower our copywriter spotted a woodpecker outside our windows! The little birdie was just hanging onto the outside of the wall. So I carefully walked over and snapped some photos.…
- Tribune Tower has twin buildings in Rockford and Elgin, IllinoisBoth the Rockford News Tower and Elgin Tower appear to have been built recently, however it’s amazing that they were both built just a few years after the Tribune Tower. Tribune Tower: 1922; News Tower: 1930; Elgin Tower: 1929 ————————-…
- Tribune windows crack as Cubs fans hearts shatterAfter the heart-breaking loss of the Chicago Cubs, it was time to take down the huge night window sign on the Tribune Tower, home of the Cubs owners. As the Tribune engineers removed the half-inch thick gatorboards, they discovered that…
- Tribune Tower transforms into a Chicago Cubs SignThe Tribune Tower is putting up one of those big window night signs for the Chicago Cubs being in the National League Playoffs. The Tribune Company owns the Cubs, so it’s about time that they finally do this. I work…
