St. Regis in Chicago
Time-lapse footage of the construction of the St. Regis, the third-tallest building in Chicago as of 2022.
EarthCam (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
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Checkerboard Film Foundation (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Architect Philip Johnson discussing his Glass House (1949), from the documentary Philip Johnson: Diary of an Eccentric Architect (1996).
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Written and photographed by Victoria S. Lautman; Produced and edited by Matthew Cunningham (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Stepwells are spectacular subterranean edifices “like skyscrapers sunk into the earth,” explains Victoria Lautman in the video Subterranean Ghosts: India's Disappearing Stepwells (2013), produced and edited by Matthew Cunningham.
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© University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Learn about the use of plants in green architecture.
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© Chicago Architecture Foundation (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Learn about wind-resistant architectural designs in Chicago, notably the bundled tube system used in Willis Tower.
