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6/12/10

Harold Washington Library, Chicago Illinois

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Hammond, Beeby and Babka designed the Harold Washington Library, the central library for Chicago, completed in 1991.

Large bronze sculptures ornament the Beaux-Art style building design. Tall arched windows punch through the thick brick recalling an industrial-age train station. A central courtyard, the Winter Gardens, is completely covered by glass in metal structure. It's a recollection of the old Chicago, before the spiring skyscrapers that sprang up after the Great Fire. It cost $195 million.

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