Prints, mugs, apparel and products celebrating the world's most important postmodern civic building, the incomparable, dazzling James R. Thompson Center (originally the State of Illinois Center, and to become the Google Center) in Chicago, by Helmut Jahn, 1985

Regarded as one of the most important postmodern public buildings in the world, the Thompson center is a bold synthesis of geometry, colour, structure, and ornament, standing as a late twentieth-century testament to Chicago’s architectural innovation. Its crystalline exterior merges futuristic forms with historical references to the city grid and surrounding context, while the vast atrium, with nods to Michelangelo’s Campidoglio, establishes the building as a civic space for the people. The dazzling use of mirrors recalls palaces like Versailles and Tsarskoye Selo, multiplying light and space on an extraordinary scale, and the exposed red structural elements of the upper levels reveal the building’s engineering audacity. Now undergoing transformation into Google’s Chicago headquarters, the structure is currently being modernised—though much of its original colour, materials, and spectacle will be lost. We however forever remember its original form with our collection of prints and products. See our blogpost of the building HERE

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