The Drake Hotel: A Grand Ballroom and a Lake Michigan Window
A 1920s grand hotel where Michigan Avenue meets Lake Shore Drive, with ballrooms facing Lake Michigan.
Garfield Park Conservatory: Field Notes on Photographing Under Glass
A large early-1900s glasshouse on Chicago's West Side, with palm and fern rooms under expanses of glass.
The Field Museum: Four Ways Out of the Big-Room Problem
A classical natural history museum on the Museum Campus, built around a vast stone central hall.
The Chicago Athletic Association: Dark Wood and Stained Glass
A former gentlemen's club on Michigan Avenue, now a hotel, with wood-panelled rooms and stained glass overlooking Millennium Park.
The Art Institute of Chicago: Reading a Museum Hour by Hour
A Beaux-Arts museum on Michigan Avenue with a walled South Garden and a contemporary glass-roofed wing.
The Adler Planetarium: One Decision Governs the Whole Day
A 1930s planetarium on Northerly Island, facing the Chicago skyline across the harbour with Lake Michigan behind.
The Brookfield Zoo, Brookfield: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A 1930s zoo laid out as a formal park — which gives a photographer a choice most zoos do not offer.
The Morton Arboretum, Lisle: One Frame, and How It Is Made
Seventeen hundred acres of trees, and one frame that only a collection like this can give you.
The Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe: The Venue’s Own Logic
A botanic garden built on islands in a lagoon system — where the water, not the planting, is the organising idea.
The Cantigny Park, Wheaton: Field Notes, Problem and Solution
A former estate with formal gardens, restored prairie and armoured vehicles on the lawn — four environments in one park.