Illinois Bicentennial - 200 Great Places Favorite Architecture
Illinois Bicentennial - 200 Great Places is a list of buildings and other structures identified as the most popular works of architecture in Illinois. To commemorate the Bicentennial of Illinois' statehood in 2018, the Illinois component of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) premiered the 200 Illinois Great Places, selected by a state-wide committee of architects, local officials and other organizations (including the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), and Landmarks Illinois) in an effort to showcase the best of Illinois.[1] This committee included architect Mike Jackson[2], former chief architect and Preservation Services Division manager of the State of Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. The National Historic Landmarks and National Register of Historic Places were used to develop the list of significant places in Illinois and included a review of the national, regional and local American Institute of Architects Design Excellence Award program winners for the last fifty years. For contemporary projects the review criteria also included the AIA 10 Principles of Livable Communities[3]. An additional criteria was that only places which could be accessed by the public, were eligible, therefore some architecturally-noteworthy private properties were not included in this listing.
The selections emphasize various types of design creations, including works by urban planners, landscape architects, local craftspeople and builders. The selection offers a view that evokes a collective sense of place created in cities and towns, as well as single structures designed by individual architects. Spanning the entire period of human settlement in Illinois, the list contributes a strong historical dimension to understanding the vast power of our shared architectural culture.
150 Great Places in Illinois[edit]
In 2006–2007, as part of the commemoration of the AIA organization's 150th anniversary, AIA Illinois named 150 Great Places in Illinois. This coincided with the national AIA announcement of the 150 highest-ranked structures as "America's Favorite Architecture". The 2018 Great Places is an update to the 2007 list, with the addition of 50 sites in Illinois. Chicago is the location of some 75 structures on the 200 Illinois Great Places list, more than any other community. Chicago also has 16 structures on the list of America's Favorite Architecture, an honor that was the result of the national AIA designation program in 2006–2007.[4]
The 200 top-ranked structures are listed below.
List of "Illinois's Great Places"[edit]
| Rank |
Structure | City | State | Architect(s) | Style | Picture |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 333 Wacker Drive | Chicago | IL | Kohn Pedersen Fox | Modern |  |
| 2 | 860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments | Chicago | IL | Mies van der Rohe | Modern |  |
| 3 | Robert Allerton Park | Monticello | IL | Robert Allerton | Georgian Revival |  |
| 4 | Aqua (skyscraper) | Chicago | IL | Studio Gang Architects | Contemporary_architecture |  |
| 5 | Bahá'í House of Worship (Wilmette, Illinois) | Wilmette | IL | Louis Bourgeois |  | |
| 6 | Bishop Hill Colony | Bishop Hill | IL |  | ||
| 7 | Bloom High School | Chicago Heights | IL | Royer, Danley, and Smith | Art Deco |  |
| 8 | Cahokia Mounds | Cahokia | IL | 
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| 9 | Old Custom House (Cairo, Illinois) | Cairo | IL | Alfred B Mullet | Italianate |  |
| 10 | Carl Schurz High School | Chicago | IL | Dwight H. Perkins | Prairie School |  |
| 11 | Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse | Chicago | IL | Mies van der Rohe | International Style |  |
| 12 | Columbus Park (Chicago) | Chicago | IL | Jens Jensen | Prairie School |  |
| 13 | Coronado Theater | Rockford | IL | Frederic J. Klein; Bell, Walter Scott Co. | Italianate |  |
| 14 | Crow Island School | Winnetka | IL | Eero Saarinen; Perkins and Will | International Style |  |
| 15 | Dana-Thomas House | Springfield | IL | Frank Lloyd Wright | Prairie School |  |
| 16 | David Davis Mansion | Bloomington | IL | Alfred H. Piquenard | Italianate |  |
| 17 | John Deere World Headquarters | Moline | IL | Eero Saarinen; Kevin Roche | Modern |  |
| 18 | DuPage County Historical Museum | Wheaton | IL | Charles Sumner Frost | Romanesque Revival |  |
| 19 | Farnsworth House | Plano | IL | Mies van der Rohe | International Style |  |
| 20 | Sheridan Reserve Center | Fort Sheridan | IL | Holabird & Roche |  | |
| 21 | Galena Historic District | Galena | IL | Greek Revival |  | |
| 22 | Garfield Park Conservatory | Chicago | IL | Jens Jensen | Italianate |  |
| 23 | Hegeler Carus Mansion | La Salle | IL | William W. Boyington | Second Empire | .jpg) |
| 24 | Church of the Holy Family (Cahokia, Illinois) | Cahokia | IL | poteaux-sur-solle |  | |
| 25 | Illinois State Capitol | [Springfield]] | IL | Alfred H. Piquenard | Renaissance Revival |  |
| 26 | 875 North Michigan Avenue, formerly theJohn Hancock Center | Chicago | IL | Fazlur Rahman Khan Bruce Graham Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | Modern |  |
| 27 | John Wood Mansion | [Quincy]] | IL | Greek Revival |  | |
| 28 | Market Square (Lake Forest, Illinois) | Lake Forest | IL | Howard Van Doren Shaw |  | |
| 29 | Macoupin County Courthouse, Carlinville, Illinois | Carlinville | IL | Elijah E. Myers | Neoclassical |  |
| 30 | Marina City | Chicago | IL | Bertrand Goldberg | Modern |  |
| 31 | Millennium Park | Chicago | IL | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Frank Gehry; Thomas Beeby | Contemporary |  |
| 32 | Field Museum of Natural History; Museum Campus | Chicago | IL | Daniel Burnham and Graham, Anderson, Probst and White | Neoclassical |  |
| 42 | Robie House | Chicago | IL | Frank Lloyd Wright | Prairie School |  |
| 47 | Union Station | Chicago | IL | Daniel Burnham and Graham, Anderson, Probst and White | _Union_Station,_great_Hall,_1925.jpg) | |
| 48 | United Airlines Terminal 1, O'Hare Airport | Chicago | IL | Helmut Jahn | Modern |  |
| 51 | Wrigley Field | Chicago | IL | Zachary Taylor Davis | Jewel Box Stadium | 
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| 100 | Tribune Tower | Chicago | IL | John Mead Howells;Raymond Hood | Gothic Revival |  |
| 101 | Willis Tower, formerly the Sears Tower | Chicago | IL | Fazlur Rahman Khan; Bruce Graham; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | Modern |  |
| 73 | Lake Point Tower | Chicago | IL | Schipporeit and Heinrich | Modern |  |
| 82 | Sofitel Chicago Water Tower | Chicago | IL | Jean-Paul Viguier | Postmodern | |
| 83 | Glessner House | Chicago | IL | Henry Hobson Richardson | Richardsonian Romanesque |  |
| 85 | Harold Washington Library | Chicago | IL | Thomas Beeby, Hammond, Beeby, Babka | Postmodern |  |
| 88 | Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago | IL | Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge | Beaux-Arts |  |
| 128 | Rookery Building | Chicago | IL | Burnham and Root | Chicago school |  |
| 145 | Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building | Chicago | IL | Louis Sullivan | Chicago school |  |
| 147 | Auditorium Building | Chicago | IL | Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan | Chicago school |  |
See also[edit]
Other articles of the topic Architecture : Royal Chapel of Milot (Haiti), Ascent South End, Islamabad Stock Exchange Tower, Prix Versailles 2019, Art Building (University of Texas at Austin), Perth Shiva Temple, List of tallest buildings in Townsville
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- Architecture of the United States
References[edit]
- ↑ Waldinger, Mike (January 30, 2018). "The proud history of architecture in Illinois". Springfield Business Journal. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ Mike Jackson's 40-year career marked by passion for preservation, State Journal Register, September 20, 2015
- ↑ "AIA's 10 Principles for Livable Communities - Mayors Innovation Project" (PDF).
- ↑ Building Online, American Institute of Architects Releases Poll Showing "America's Favorite Architecture" Archived 2012-09-13 at WebCite, Building Online, March 15, 2007
- ↑ American Institute of Architects, Illinois Great Places website
External links[edit]
- AIA 150, NPR.org (text-based list)
- Americans' Favorite Buildings, The Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2007 (illustrated sortable list)
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