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Article: P-K vs PM. (Powell-Kleinschmidt design for law offices of Mayer, Brown & Platt in postmodern building by Johnson-Burgee) (Office Design in Chicago)
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- May 1, 1988
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P/K vs PM What happens when scrupulous modernists (Powell/Kleinschmidt) meet what-the-hell postmodernists (Johnson/Burgee)? The design of law offices for Mayer, Brown & Platt is an adventure story with a happy ending.
Wrong. The steeply gabled building shown on the previous spread is not a Loire Valley chateau. Nor is it Henry Hardenbergh's 1907 Plaza Hotel in New York. Nor yet John Wellborn Root's Masonic Building, which once stood at the corner of State and Randolph in Chicago, the city's tallest structure at the time of the 1893 World Columbian Exposition, but demolished in 1938.
What we see, rather, is the top of one of Chicago's newest towers. It ...