
Photo was shot from the John Hancock Building on the observation deck. Looks like something out of the Planet Apes.

Photo was shot from the John Hancock Building on the observation deck. Looks like something out of the Planet Apes.

115th Street Grocery Store. Chicago. March 17, ’13

Chicago architecture is deferential to the rich traditions of past generations. This building tips it’s hat to the architect Graham and engineer Khan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, who together built the building no one believed could be built, The John Hancock. Here’s to you Chicago, inventor of the skycraper and world leaders in architecture for more than one hundred years.

Here’s to 745 stranger-neighbors. Horizontal dwellers speak with elbow resting on white wood fence. Vertical animals pull out smart phones in the elevator to avoid exchanging words. The condo residents do share one thing in common: a fear of fire on the 36th floor that left some death.

It’s not the exoskeleton, but it’s a tip of the hat to Graham and Khan. Architect and engineer of the Hancock and Sears Tower.

It has to be true love, 26 degrees and 45 minutes of outdoor photos. In the spirit of Stevie Wonder’s great music, love’s in need of love today. Here’s to a lifetime of it young lady.
It has to be true love, 26 degrees and 45 minutes of outdoor photos. In the spirit of Stevie Wonder’s great music, love’s in need of love today. Here’s to a lifetime of it young lady.