“Are you going to blow loose the tin brass goat on my roof?” one asked. ![]() Often the Northwest Wind shook the tin brass goat and shook the tin brass goose on top of the skyscrapers. “Yes, the mountains are there yonder, and farther yonder is the sea, and the railroads are still going, still running across the prairie to the mountains, to the sea,” the Northwest Wind would answer.Īnd now there was a pledge made by the Northwest Wind to the two skyscrapers. “Well, I see the city is here yet,” the Northwest Wind would whistle to the skyscrapers.Īnd they would answer, “Yes, and are the mountains standing yet way out yonder where you come from, Wind?” Coming so far, coming five hundred miles in a few hours, coming so fast always while the skyscrapers were standing still, standing always on the same old street corners always, the Northwest Wind was a bringer of news. Now the Northwest Wind was a friend of the two skyscrapers. And high on the roof of the other skyscraper was a tin brass goose looking out across prairies, and silver blue lakes shining like blue porcelain breakfast plates, and out across silver snakes of winding rivers in the morning sun. High on the roof of one of the skyscrapers was a tin brass goat looking out across prairies, and silver blue lakes shining like blue porcelain breakfast plates, and out across silver snakes of winding rivers in the morning sun. One thing is sure: they often were seen leaning toward each other and whispering in the night the same as mountains lean and whisper in the night. Whether they whispered secrets to each other or whether they whispered simple things that you and I know and everybody knows, that is their secret. In the night time when all the people buying and selling were gone home and there were only policemen and taxicab drivers on the streets, in the night when a mist crept up the streets and 134 threw a purple and gray wrapper over everything, in the night when the stars and the sky shook out sheets of purple and gray mist down over the town, then the two skyscrapers leaned toward each other and whispered. In the daylight when the streets poured full of people buying and selling, these two skyscrapers talked with each other the same as mountains talk. Two skyscrapers stood across the street from each other in the Village of Liver-and-Onions. ![]() ![]() The facade's patchwork of translucent glass expresses student activity and artwork outward to engage the street and surrounding community.The Two Skyscrapers Who Decided to Have a Child, 1922 By pushing the atrium space to the perimeter, the building provides inter-floor connectivity and enhances its connection back out to the surrounding campus. ![]() To achieve this, the design took the conventional idea of an atrium and turned it inside-out, making the active student spaces more visible. The building creates visual awareness and encourages students to reevaluate their perspectives. The project is part of the school’s strategic vision for the future and offers more than a typical student center-actively magnifying the energy and creativity found within in it, rather than simply serving as a passive container for it. The structure provides a diverse student body with a welcoming, inspiring hub for creativity, collaboration and chance encounters. Columbia College Chicago’s five-story, 114,000-square-foot student center is the first on its expansive urban campus since the school’s founding in 1890.
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