Sehoon Cheon
Reflection about the Boat Ride
The Chicago architecture boat tour along Michigan Lake and the
Chicago River with cool wind on sunny day was refreshing me because I have
recently been bored and tired of my Chicago routine life. Actually, I have been
interested in the photography and skyline of the skyscrapers in the big city. I
cannot forget the moment when I visited in Chicago for the first time in 2006.
At that time, I remember the splendid Sears Towerand magnificent John Hancock
building as the most famous building in the northern downtown of Chicago. Now
in 2012, 6 yearshave been passed there is some changes of the skyline in
Chicago.
First, the Sears Tower has changed the
name to “Willis Tower” from 2009 and second, new skyscraper Trump tower has
been built up in the middle of Chicago.
From this
boat tour, I have learned the history of Chicago significant buildings that
have very important meaning on architecture history.As the tour guide
explained, every single building has its own unique appearance and all
different purpose of the construction related to the historical background.
Therefore, regardless of the height of the building, all the buildings have
important meanings in Chicago as a architecture.
While the guide was giving us the
information about history of the architecture, one book has been come up with
in my mind. That is the book called “ The devil in the white city”. I was
recommended to read this book in the last summer semester in ESL 100 class.
This book is about how Chicago planned to build up all the new constructions
through the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893 after the Great Chicago Fire
in 1871. If you have chance to read this book, I am pretty sure that you will
be able to be interested in Chicago architectures because we are living in the
middle of Chicago buildings everyday, feeling the history
of Chicago together.
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