Scans of Chicago photos from the late 70s. Part 5
Jul 12, 2023 14:58:13 #
First National Plaza:
My favorite place to eat my lunch on hot summer days in the center of the Chicago Loop.
10 South Dearborn Street, is a 60-story skyscraper Designed by Perkins+Will completed in 1969 as First National Plaza. It's now JPMorgan Chase Bank,
It was a great public space to meet friends in the deep sunken plaza with a jet fountain and Marc Chagall's ceramic multi-sided mural "Four Seasons".
These 70s photos bridge between architecture and street.
My favorite place to eat my lunch on hot summer days in the center of the Chicago Loop.
10 South Dearborn Street, is a 60-story skyscraper Designed by Perkins+Will completed in 1969 as First National Plaza. It's now JPMorgan Chase Bank,
It was a great public space to meet friends in the deep sunken plaza with a jet fountain and Marc Chagall's ceramic multi-sided mural "Four Seasons".
These 70s photos bridge between architecture and street.
Jul 12, 2023 15:16:51 #
mallen1330 wrote:
First National Plaza: br br My favorite place to ... (show quote)
A beautiful people place - and with the clothing and hair styles on display - some really fun shots
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
Mar 6, 2024 22:24:33 #
I just realized that this place, one of my favorite places in the Chicago Loop embodies similar concepts of the protective environment in a project I did during my freshman first year in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon in 1964. I think the task was to design a space that reflects or supports a basic human need or emotion. I thought that a somewhat mysterious, fortress-like structure full of gardens and other artistic delights would foster people of different backgrounds and experience to feel safe to come together, engage in a community, discussing issues in a protective environment. Physical and emotional safety leads to dialog and growth.
The photos were taken 12 years later when I worked for an architectural firm in the loop.
The photos were taken 12 years later when I worked for an architectural firm in the loop.
Mar 21, 2024 11:55:20 #
mallen1330 wrote:
First National Plaza: br br My favorite place to ... (show quote)
That was a nice unexpected look back at a time that's now gone. One question: How come no one in those pics is looking at their smartphone? Was it "Leave Your iPhone at Home Day" in Chicago or something? </sarc>
I hope you don't mind. I played around with the color balance a little, trying to take out some of the magenta that's overpowering the 1st slide. I think I improved it some but to make it look more realistic it would take more skill than I have. I got rid of most of the magenta but now it looks a bit too yellow. I can't figure out to fix that without going straight b/w. And the trees at the bottom of the shot ceratinly aren't green. More brown than green.
Mar 21, 2024 12:53:35 #
10MPlayer wrote:
That was a nice unexpected look back at a time tha... (show quote)
I remember those days when people actually sat and talked to each other
How times have changed
Mar 21, 2024 13:17:24 #
That's what happens to Ektachrome slides after 48 years. The colors fade, but magenta last longer than the others. It didn't bother me, as I'm red-green colorblind
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