Last updated on 05 January 09
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Art Institute Gardens, Chicago

4.0/5 (1 ratings)

South Garden. Photograph © Art Institute Gardens, Chicago
North Garden. Photograph © Art Institute Gardens, Chicago

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The Chicago Art Institute has two modern gardens.The Institute itself, built in conjunction with the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, is Beaux Arts. The South Garden, built in 1962 was designed by the master landscape architect Dan Kiley and is perhaps his most important public project. It has a pattern of silver granite planters, with hawthorns, in orange gravel. The North Garden was designed, as a sculpture court, by the landscape architect Laurie Olin.

Address - 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, IL 60603-6110
Website - Visit the Art Institute Gardens, Chicago website

Designers and Influences

This garden has been designed and influenced by Dan Kiley

Dan Kiley

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Recent Reviews

about 3 years ago Jen said
One of my absolute pilgrimage spots whenever I visit Chicago! The garden steps down from the street ever so slightly, the pea gravel has a soft crunching sound under your feet and the horizontal branching of the Hawthrone trees creates a perfect ceiling to the space.
wonderful

(4.0/5)

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