{"id":1793,"date":"2014-05-12T22:44:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T12:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/duluxstudytourblog.architecture.com.au\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2014-05-12T22:44:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T12:44:29","slug":"day-2-aka-page-6-of-itinerary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/duluxstudytourblog\/day-2-aka-page-6-of-itinerary\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 [aka page 6 of itinerary)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an attempt to ward off our jet lag, we met at the hotel lobby to go on an early morning neighbourhood exploration. Except for Ben. There are a lot of amazing cute little Art Deco buildings in the neighbourhood we are staying In – more on this later!<\/p>\n

PART A:
\nPost our morning walk we jumped in cabs downtown to explore the skyscrapers of Chicago through a river based boat tour run by the Chicago Architecture Foundation. Highlights include towers by SOM (who we are going to visit tomorrow morning) and learning how Chicago has a predilection for passing off their buildings form as ‘contextualism’.<\/p>\n

PART B:
\nThen we met Larry. Larry was our exceptional tour guide who had a background in architecture history, and more notably, worked as a voice over artist. Larry drove us 1.5 hours down to Plano, where he took us on a tour of Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth house (given we begged Bernadette to add it to our jam-packed itinerary).<\/p>\n

The two things that stood out to us were its positioning against a noisy highway that now backs onto the property, and how the building is showing a few wrinkles – particularly due to the flood damage over rising river levels over past decades.<\/p>\n

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Ps: We definitely recommend visiting – Google ‘off the map architectural excursions’. As a true Mies aficionado, on our way home Larry detoured us past the Lakeshore Drive apartments – in which he fortunately used to own an apartment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an attempt to ward off our jet lag, we met at the hotel lobby to go on an early morning neighbourhood exploration. Except for Ben. There are a lot of amazing cute little Art Deco buildings in the neighbourhood we are staying In – more on this later! PART A: Post our morning walk … Continue reading Day 2 [aka page 6 of itinerary)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/duluxstudytourblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/duluxstudytourblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/duluxstudytourblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/duluxstudytourblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/duluxstudytourblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/duluxstudytourblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/duluxstudytourblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/duluxstudytourblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/duluxstudytourblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}