STANDARD OIL BUILDING

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Title	STANDARD OIL BUILDING
View	Close view from southeast across lake, depicting relationship in skyline
Notes	administrative
Work Type	skyscraper office tower company headquarters
Style/Period	Modern
Creator Name	Stone, Edward Durell Perkins & Will
Creator Nationality	American firm
Date.Creator Birth	20C
Climate Type	cold temperate
Country	United States of America
City	Chicago
State/Province	IL
Architectural Material	granite
Structural System	tubular steel-frame V-shaped perimeter columns
Dates	1972-1974
Century	20C
Photographer	Scott Gilchrist, Archivision
Date Photographed	9/30/1991
Subject Information	Standard Oil (3.3 million ft2) also known as the Amoco Building Chicago, Illinois (1972) 83 stories, 1,136 feet, 346.3 meters. The second tallest tower in Chicago, the Standard Oil Building is a stand-out due to its monumental proportions and gleaming white facade. Measuring 194 feet square in plan and boasting generous 30,000 square-foot floor plates, the tower was originally clad in Italian Carrara marble, and later replaced with 44,000 pieces of 2-inch thick granite. The building employs a tubular steel-framed structural system with V-shaped perimeter columns to resist earthquakes, reduce sway, minimize column bending, and maximize column-free space. To further expand rentable area, 40 of the building's 50 elevators are double-deckers, an often preferred solution to ensure efficient vertical circulation while reducing the space consumed by the central service core. The foundation features 56 caissons consisting of steel-encased vertical shafts filled with reinforced concrete and socketed several feet into solid bedrock more than 100 feet below ground. The caissons contain 50 million pounds of concrete and 2 million of steel. Source: www.skyscraper.org/exhibitions/bb/jumbos/j_11.htm
Credit Line	Archivision Inc. (all images copyright Scott Gilchrist / Archivision.com)
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

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