Two new books, Joseph M. Siry’s “The Chicago Auditorium Building: Adler and Sullivan’s Architecture and the City” and Bob Thall’s “CitySpaces: Photographs of Chicago Alleys,” explore ...

A hulking mass of stone, Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre has ... eliciting a wild response from the crowd. When the building opened Adler & Sullivan moved their offices to the 16th and 17th ...

and engineer Dankmar Adler, the Auditorium Building's paramount influence is woven tightly into the fabric of Chicago history. The brainstorm of Chicago businessman, Ferdinand Peck, the Auditorium ...

The Chicago Opera Company used the Auditorium Theatre for 40 years. For all the engineering genius poured into the project by Adler, it was the design of the building, credited to Sullivan ...

and the most expensive building in Chicago. The Richardson Romanesque structure cost $3.2 million, about $77 million in 2019 dollars. It included a 4,200 seat auditorium, 130 offices, 400-room ...

The checkered history of the landmark Auditorium Building and its 3,900-seat theater provided the narrative for the evening. Designed by Dankmar Adler and ... to put postfire Chicago on the ...

Adler & Sullivan's Auditorium Building is a good place to launch the ... buildings both muscular and influential from across Chicago (you may also nominate in the comments below).

Combining new technology and capital, the firm of Adler and Sullivan revolutionized architecture in the years between two great commissions: Chicago’s 1889 Auditorium Building and St. Louis’s 1891 ...

The 1889 Auditorium Building is well-known for the important ... was attempted for the first time in a Chicago skyscraper. At Adler and Sullivan’s Stock Exchange Building construction site ...

Why the Auditorium Theatre's big birthday matters to Chicago ... Building was considered the epitome of modern design, thanks to the handiwork of two noted architects Dankmar Adler and Louis ...