Merchandise Mart Chicago

 The Merchandise Mart (or the Merch Mart, or the Mart) is a commercial building located in Chicago along the river. When it was opened in 1930, it was the largest building in the whole world with 4 million square feet (372,000 m²) of floor space.  The structure is located at the junction of the Chicago River branches. The building is a leading retail and wholesale location.  Neocon is the event that I have focused on for my later interior design and architectural career. 

Chicago River painted view

 Chicago river painted view during Neocon event at the #merchandisemart #neocon #chicago #dougwittnebel #illustration #painting #concepts #conceptsapp #conceptsapparchitect

Herman Miller installation Neocon 51 years

View looking south on the Chicago River. Dark red steel Drawbridges and dark green waters

Chicago River and Marina City View in the morning fog light

Four selections for illustrations of Neocon 2018 features

Fog and drizzle and the Wrigley Building

FOG

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.

"Fog" is a poem by Carl Sandburg. It first appeared in Sandburg's first mainstream collection of poems, Chicago Poems, published in 1916.

Sandburg has described the genesis of the poem. At a time when he was carrying a book of Japanese Haiku, he went to interview a juvenile court judge, and he had cut through Grant Park and saw the fog over Chicago harbor. He had certainly seen many fogs before, but this time he had to wait forty minutes for the judge, and he only had a piece of newsprint handy, so he decided to create an "American Haiku”

... and ...

From my hotel window I painted and marveled at the fog and drizzle over the Chicago River and above the magnificent Wrigley building. 

Chicago in the wet summer fog.

Chicago in a wet June mood

State Street bridge, Chicago visit

This bridge is among the newer of Chicago's deck truss bascule bridges with a 1949 construction date...The bridge is an example of the unique Chicago design which raised the position of the deck truss up just far enough so that the top chord is above the deck like a pony truss, where it can act as a guardrail and also increase both the clearance under the bridge and the streamlined aesthetics of the bridge. This design is known as the railing height truss...