Martin Roche

…architect who, with his partner, Martin Roche, was a leading exponent of the influential Chicago School of commercial architecture. Their Tacoma Building (Chicago, 1886–89) established the use of a total steel skeleton as a framework for building skyscrapers—a significant advance over the pioneering use of metal supports in the

Architects William Holabird and Martin Roche won with a design for a Greek Revival stadium that notably featured a pair of colonnades. In 1922 construction began along Lake Michigan and continued for more than a decade. Although it had been envisioned to seat 150,000 people, the stadium featured approximately…

…such as William Holabird and Martin Roche in the Tacoma Building (1887–89), also missed their chance. Even the great Louis Sullivan was not successful in his early buildings, such as the Ryerson (1884). Covering them with gross, somewhat Art Nouveau ornament, he accentuated first the vertical columns and then the…