Holabird & Roche: Holiday Structure
[Gage Group/McCormick Buildings (1899) Holabird & Roche, architects /Image & Artwork: designslinger]
In the long period of their practice, in the number and excellence of their buildings, in the consistency and uniformity of their designs, William Holabird and Martin Roche most completely represented the purpose and achievement of the mainstream of the Chicago school.
- Carl Condit
[Champlain/Powers Building (1903) Holabird & Roche, architects /Image &Artwork: designslinger]
Distinctive features in their work are the straightforward, rational expression of orthogonal steel framing and a preference for the "Chicago window...."
- Richard Sisson
[Chicago Savings Bank Building (1904) Holabird & Roche, architects /Image & Artwork: designslinger]
.... we know a good deal and almost nothing about William Holabird and Martin Roche.... Most of what we know about [them] we can find out only by looking at their buildings.
- Robert Bruegmann
Posted by designslinger at 12/27/2010 4:18 AM 
Categories: Architecture, Ephemera, Architects
Tags: Holabird and Roche commercial architecture
Categories: Architecture, Ephemera, Architects
Tags: Holabird and Roche commercial architecture
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