Auditorium Building Chicago

Address: Chicago ، USA

Architect: Adler & Sullivan
The Auditorium building was the first multi-purpose building
Building costs $3,500,000

Material:
Steel and concrete as the main structure and foundation
gold for the ornament
stone like granite for facade.
Design

Adler and Sullivan designed a tall structure with load-bearing outer walls, and based the exterior
appearance partly on the design of HH Richardson's Marshall Field Warehouse, another Chicago landmark.
The Auditorium is a heavy, impressive structure externally, and
was more striking in its day when buildings of its scale were
less common.

The resulting raft allowed the weight of the massive outer

walls to be distributed over a large area

However, the weight of the masonry outer walls in relation to

the relatively lightweight interior deformed the raft over the
course of a century, and today portions of the building have
settled as much as 29 inches.
Sullivan's genius for architectural ornamentation is displayed in the building's interior, where most of the public
rooms are 
In the center of the building was a 4,300 seat auditorium, originally intended primarily for production of Grand Opera.
Elevations + plans