Chicago, 1997

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A sketch of Mies van der Rohe’s Federal Plaza, Chicago. The surrounding buildings are so insistently scaleless that the plaza looks huge from across the street, but when you are in it, it is actually quite small.

Sketch by Mark Gerwing, 1997.

~ by mgerwing on December 30, 2007.

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