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Marquette Building detail

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Color detail of a brown terra cotta relief on the Marquette Building, a series of interlocking waves intersected by circles.
October 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Took a break between #OHC2025 and No Kings to take in some nature
Color photo of a stained glass window in a hundred pretty shades of green. Two trees in foreground, mountains in back, in between veins of green that could be water or verdant hills.
October 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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#OHC2025 #NOKINGS
October 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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OHC is free thanks to you 🫵 Help keep it that way! Even a small gift to the Chicago Architecture Center keeps the festival going strong. ❤️ https://bit.ly/4h9viQT #OHC2025 #OHC2026 #allfortheloveofChicago
October 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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After the cleanse of an early morning rain, a beautiful day in Chicago shaping up to look at cool buildings and exercise the right of peaceful protest. #ohc2025 #nokings
October 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
tudoraf.bsky.social
Thank you #OHC2025 for the guides (and for leaving some windows untaped)!
Color photo of view from high up window onto city blocks below. Blue tape in horizontal lines framing a view indicate LOOK HERE with arrows
October 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Auditorium Building, Roosevelt University (1/3) #ohc2025
Ornate fireplace of engraved wood and intricate tile work. Close-up of tile work on the fireplace Grand piano in a lounge area. There are a few historical photographs seen in the background.
October 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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On Wednesdays, we wear pink. 💅 Also Fridays. 😉

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📸: Edgewater Beach Apartments, Architect: Marshall & Fox, Photographer: Eric Allix Rogers

#Chicago #architecture #OHC2025 #OpenHouseChicago #EdgewaterBeach #MeanGirlsDay
October 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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More shots of the incredible Hilliard Tower Apartments #OHC2025
A color photo from above of a concrete high-rise apartment building with each rounded window in a curved section. Color photo of open walkways on a concrete apartment building. Large rounded windows repeat over curved segments. Color photo of a Brutalist 1-story building in a verdant courtyard. Concrete frame leaves nice overhang. The rest is glass windows. Color photo of the large window of a tall building, looking out at a city scene. Window has four panes and is rounded at the edges, resembling a chunky pill.
October 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Limiting myself to just one more from Hilliard, & I'll make it this curvy beauty of a staircase that I fell madly in love with

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Color close-up of part of an external staircase rising high into a blue sky with scattered clouds. Rounded rectangular windows punctate the raw concrete facade to the left, which gently curves to reveal a mesh screen behind which can be glimpsed bold red handrails and the zigzag of flights of stairs.
October 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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📸 Chicago, you showed up! These amazing shots from #OHC2025 capture the city at its best.
Swift Hall: @mwb0153
Emil Bach House: @quaintcities
Edgewater Beach Apts: @leylairoyale
Hilliard Apts: @scottanselmophoto
OHC2026: Oct 17–18
OHC2025 Photo competition: https://bit.ly/3Lbg5TR
October 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Auditorium Building, Roosevelt University - 10th floor library #ohc2025
View from a window looking out towards Buckingham fountain. Sculpture between two beige leather chairs. Large, old wooden study desks in a former dining hall turned library.
October 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Auditorium Building, Roosevelt University - Rudolph Ganz Hall
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Interior of Rudolph Ganz Hall, a prairie style recital hall. View is looking towards the stage from the rear seating area. Stained glass work and engraved wood and gold panels adorn the walls. Side view of Ganz Hall. Stained glass, chandeliers, murals, and the seating area can be seen Stained glass artwork on the ceiling.
October 20, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Hilliard Tower Apartments
Architect: Bertrand Goldberg, 1966
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Color photo of the entire Hilliard complex, taken from some distance on the elevated platform at Cermak-Chinatown. Tracks, cement and the station identification sign are the in the foreground, a parking lot and more tracks in the middle, and the four buildings of the tower complex off in the distance. Color photo taken looking straight up the undulating, concrete sides of one of the circular buildings. Color photo of the tree-filled Hilliard courtyard taken from atop one of the circular buildings. The camera catches the concrete lip of the building as we peer down, and where the trees part, the half circles of the outdoor amphitheater can just be made out from this height. Parts of the other circular building and one of the crescent shaped buildings is visible, along with an urban landscape beyond. Color photo taken in wide angle between the two crescent shaped Hilliard Tower Apartment apartment buildings. Neither of these two massive buildings is fully in view, but the camera does crane enough back to show their height.
October 19, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Report from the Open House Chicago field: the lines at the Auditorium Building are long. The view from the line is pretty good. #ohc2025
View of an ornamental stair in the Michigan Avenue lobby of the Auditorium Building.
October 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Four Star Mushrooms #ohc2025
Vintage yellow VW van that says "Four Star Mushrooms" Rows of Blue Oyster mushrooms many large bags of mushrooms in storage.
October 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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🙌 Join the team that makes Chicago’s biggest architecture festival possible! As an OHC volunteer, you’ll help visitors experience the magic of #OHC2025 at one of more than 200 sites. And you’ll receive volunteer benefits including an 🎟️ OHC Priority Access Pass & event tshirt! 👕https://bit.ly/3B2R8ow
September 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Chicago Loop Synagogue art
Sculptures: Henri Azaz
Stained glass: Abraham Rattner
Architects: Loebl, Schlossman & Bennett, 1959
#OHC2025
Color close-up of a bronze sculpture suspended over the entrance to the Chicago Loop Synagogue. It features abstract hands hovering over a benediction that is spelled out in an artistic jumble of three dimensional letters in both Hebrew and English, like an old-fashioned manual typesetter's drawer has been dumped out. Above and behind the sculpture is just a hint of the stained glass wonder that exists inside. Color interior photo of Let There Be Light, an exquisitely designed monumental stained glass window that dominates almost an entire wall. A vibrant kaleidoscope of colors and abstracted symbols on a background made up of different shades of blue, it is incredible to behold.
October 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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📣 👀 Big reveal coming soon...the neighborhoods for Open House Chicago 2025 are about to be announced! 😮

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#Chicago #architecture #OpenHouseChicago #OHC2025 #Chicagohistory #historicChicago #behindthescenesChicago
August 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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🎉 NEW FOR #OHC2025! 🎉 We’re thrilled to welcome the Aspire Center for Workforce Innovation to this year’s #OpenHouseChicago lineup. Once the shuttered Emmet Elementary, this building now empowers the Austin community thru high-level workforce training & community-driven reuse. https://bit.ly/480tDee
September 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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🤝 Join us in Bronzeville for #OHC2025! Our Teen Ambassadors will share their research on the neighborhood’s architecture and history at six sites, Oct 18, 12:30–3:30.
https://bit.ly/3NDM4K9
📸: South Side Community Art Center
October 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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The original Sears Tower (Sears Merchandise Building)

Architects: Nimmons and Fellows, 1905-1906.
#OHC2025
Color photo of a tall, red brick building sitting on a limestone base, taken on angle from across the street. Sections of non matching common brick are visible on the sides up to the 9th floor where this wall was once shared with a neighboring building. Color photo looking straight up at the red brick tower from directly beneath a rounded entrance canopy decorated with Greek keys and situated between two fluted columns. Color photo of the building's corner stone, taken at an angle. One side says: JOHN D AND ALEXANDRA C NICHOLS TOWER 2015 The other very weathered side side reads (in part): SEARS ROEBUCK AND COMPANY -1905- GEORGE C NIMMONS -- WILLIAM K FELLOWS ARCHITECTS Color photo of the very top of a red brick building, taken at an angle to show two sides. On each side of the upper floor are three white round arch windows separated by columns. Eagles sit atop each arch, popping brilliantly against the blue of the spandrels. Above this on each side is white on blue frieze bearing the name of the company.
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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😎 It’s official: Avondale is 1 of the world’s coolest neighborhoods (#1 in the U.S.). See why during Open House Chicago at 🎳 Avondale Bowl 🚂 Diversey House 🎵 Electrical Audio 🍻 Lake Effect Brewing 🥃 Judson & Moore Distillery. #allfortheloveofChicago #OHC2025 #Chicago #Avondale https://bit.ly/4nTW5Do
September 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Electrical Audio #ohc2025
The front entrance to Electrical Audio. It is a bright red door with a metal emblem with the studio logo and house # engraved on it Tour of the recording room of Studio A The "Kentucky room" of Studio A
October 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Angelic details.

Second Presbyterian Church interior
Architects: James Renwick Jr (1874), Howard Van Doren Shaw (1901 renovation)
Muralist: Frederic Clay Bartlett
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Color photo taken in the Arts and Crafts interior of a large church, facing the altar. Painted into an arch is an enormous, medieval style mural with about a zillion angels stationed over the Tree of Life. In front of this is a wooden structure on which stand four carved wooden angels with their wings spread. A fifth is perfectly centered, but in a completely different position, looking down at the pulpit. To the far right and left other angels lean over to dangle lights over the aisles. Color photo of a carved wooden angel blowing a trumpet. It stands in front of a mural featuring more angels. Color close-up looking straight up at an unimpressed plaster angel. She is staring back down at you through the golden lamp she holds. Color photo of a mural painted into an arch. On either side of a centrally located tree are angels or saints doing either angelic or saintly things. High above, two curious but unimpressed angels peer down at you from their lofty perch.
October 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM