A Modernist's Day Dream
I say "day" dream because I can't say the kind of dream I am really thinking about--this is a G-rated site, you know--but you get my drift.
Anyway, in another installment of The Paper Skyline, we get a gander at plans the Illinois Central Railroad drew up at mid-century to replace its decaying railyards east of Michigan at Roosevelt with this campus of modernist office and residential buildings. It never got off the ground, but designwise the approach is not unlike what was built about a decade later at Illinois Center--the railroad's other big parcel on the north end of Grant Park.
The current Central Station development includes the land that depicted here.
I almost forgot. The Chicago Journal last month did a story on my fascination with unbuilt projects. And they called me an architecture geek. Dag!
