The Tacoma Building, (Chicago); 1929 Jiahao Wang

Name:The Tacoma Building
Architect: William Holabird
The Tacoma Building is a very famous building in Chicago because it’s designed by William Holabird and Martin Roche, whom are two of most important architects in Chicago, and they have a architectural firm, which called Holabird & Roche. The Tacoma Building is the first major building that this company designed. Holabird & Roche firm was founded in Chicago in 1880, and is a one of the most oldest architecture firm in Chicago. Holabird & Root firm provides architectural, engineering, interior design, and planning services. Ossian Cole Simonds is one of the founders, but Simonds left the firm in 1883 and to be a landscape architect. William Holabird, Ossian Cole Simonds and Martin Roche worked in the office of William LeBaron Jenney. This firm was founded by William Holabird and Ossian Cole Simonds, and Martin Roche joined them later. It was called Holabird & Simonds. After Simonds left in 1883, it changed to Holabird & Roche. They designed the Tacoma Building, and it’s a pretty successful building. It’s completed in 1889 demolished in 1929. They also designed lager, ornate hotels across the country, including Chicago's Palmer House.
The Tacoma building is a pioneering building of the Chicago school. It used a special framework of steel and iron, which George A. Fuller made it. William Holabird and Martin Roche used rivets to connect all elements together. This is the first trying to build a building by this way, so it was a risk, but it was work very well. It is kind like a big step of building field. Architectural firm Holabird & Roche pushed this area a lot, so this is the reason why it is a very famous and important building that we talk about today.
Metal support, which they used to build the Tacoma Building, was also used in the home insurance building because it was work very well, so it was followed by someone else. Metal, which used for architectural purposes, is lead, tin, zinc, copper and aluminium. Lead used for water pipes, roofing and windows. Zinc, copper and aluminium used for decoration. Metal alloys is a pretty big and important part of metal, and it used in building include bronze, brass, monel metal and nickel silver. Metal support is a big challenge, but they tried and did it, so they are the hero of the architecture area. They did something that normal people can’t imagine and do. As we know, we still use metal support to build our building today, so we can see how William Holabird and Martin Roche helped us even they died. I can imagine a world without them because it was a big step of architecture. Skyscraper can not leave metal, and metal support is a basic element of skyscraper. They build a super strong base for architectural. When we see metal support in anywhere of the world, we will miss them and we will never forget them because they pushed architectural and they are the hero of architectural.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Building_(Chicago)

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