2004 is off to a good start at IPM. With new and larger facilities in the historic Santa Fe Building, IPM is now poised to fulfill the expansion plans it had laid out in 2003.
Located at
224 South Michigan, the Santa Fe Building is a significant member of Chicago’s
historic Michigan Avenue streetwall. Originally named the Railway Exchange
Building, this landmark was designed by Daniel
H. Burnham and built in 1904. Burnham and firm moved in soon after it
was built, and it was in these offices that he laid out the 1909 Plan of Chicago
and planned a decade of buildings. Most Chicagoans know the building for the
large and distinctive “Santa Fe” sign which is visible from Lake
Shore Drive, but its interior is equally remarkable, featuring a ground-level
atrium with a visually striking center shaft rising above the atrium through
the upper floors. The building has been recently renovated and should be included
any architecture buff’s walking tour of downtown Chicago.
IPM has taken up offices on the fourth floor of the Santa Fe with some very good neighbors, including the Chicago Architecture Foundation next door.
