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Emil Bach House Built in 1915 for the co-owner of a brick works, the Bach house is one of the few examples of Frank Lloyd Wright’s late Prairie School work within Chicago city limits—a compact, urban configuration of the cantilevers and boxy massing found, for instance, in Oak Park’s Laura Gale house. The interior embodies Wright’s pioneering open plan, and still contains fixtures and furnishings specially designed for it by the architect. Overlapping perpendicular planes on the street-side facade hint at the Japanese-influenced style Wright was heading toward at the time. The house was declared a Chicago landmark in 1977 and added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1979. a7415 N. Sheridan, closed to the public. —AY
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The Richard J. Klarchek Information Commons, barely a year old, is connected to the two Rebori buildings by covered, arched walkways. Built by the Chicago/San Francisco firm of Solomon Cordwell Buenz, this electronic resource center—a “library without books”—is most striking for its transparent main study areas and environmental bona fides. It’s received LEED silver certification andincorporates an innovative natural ventilation system that conserves heat in the winter and cools the space in the summer.
