ICONIC ENDEAVOR

The 11th floor of the Inland Steel Building looked a little like raw interiors for Sterling Cooper Draper Price as the Chicago Architecture Foundation hosted its first ICON event at the building. The event played up the buildings' 1957 architecture with a theme from that decade. The new series of events is planned to bring a more diverse audience to experience some of Chicago's great buildings. We snapped Leopardo's Emily Portugal ,Carrie Ruban, Liz Ward, and friends enjoying the space and relaxing after their company's recent completion of a new HVAC and window installation at Provena Mercy Medical Center in Aurora.
 
Here's CAF's Charles Stanford and Allie Chapman and Leopardo'sRuben Ruban, who helped organize the event, which raised $30,000 for Chicago Architecture Foundation. Gensler's Carlos Martinezdesigned the space for the evening and the Metro provided DJs.Herman Miller kicked the furniture.

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