Showing posts with label Loews Hotel Chicago. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Loews Hotel Chicago. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Mr. Trump, meet Mr. Loew

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And no, there is no Mr. Loews, but there was a Mr. Loew - Marcus Loew, to be exact - the source of all things Loews, co-founding in 1904 the theater chain which went on to create powerhouse movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.  When the Tisch family acquired the company in 1969, they killed the possessive apostrophe and Loew's became just plain Loews, which Tisch brothers Laurence and Robert merged into their growing hotel business, forming the conglomerate still known today as Loews Corporation, which sold off the theaters in 1985.

Photographs taken on the evening of July 16th, 2014, the 10th anniversary of the opening of Millennium Park . . .

Sunday, June 16, 2013

How to Build a Flying Staircase

More from the Loews Hotel construction site at 435 North Park Drive. (watch on YouTube for highest res.)

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When they're all done, it will look something like this . . .
rendering courtesy Solomon Cordwell Buenz
More:
435, Cool Even in Daylight
Coolest Construction Site in the City?

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