Poetic Design--New building provides a home for the Poetry Foundation

摘要

Architecture and design meet the beauty of poetic license at the new home for the Poetry Foundation in Chicago's River North neighborhood. Completed in June 2011, the $21.5 million project is made up of a 22,000-square-foot building and a 4,000-square-foot garden. The Foundation's new home includes public spaces of a library, gallery and performance space, as well as office and support spaces.Architect John Ronan of Chicago-based John Ronan Architects, explains that the building was conceived as a series of layers of different materials—zinc, glass and wood—that visitors move through and between, creating an unfolding sequence of spaces, similar to how a poem unfolds line by line.