Discover
Architecture.
Palmolive Building: Exterior · Palmolive Building , former Playboy Building
1/6 · Exterior · Palmolive Building , former Playboy BuildingPhoto: Zol87 from Chicago, IL, USA · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Palmolive Building: Exterior · The Palmolive Building, formerly the Playboy Building, is a 37-story Art Deco building at 919 N
2/6 · Exterior · The Palmolive Building, formerly the Playboy Building, is a 37-story Art Deco building at 919 NPhoto: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
Palmolive Building: Exterior · Palmolive Building in Chicago, at 919 N
3/6 · Exterior · Palmolive Building in Chicago, at 919 NPhoto: Smallbones · Public domain · source
Palmolive Building: Exterior · Upward view of Michigan Avenue facade of the John Hancock Center, with surrounding buildings visible
4/6 · Exterior · Upward view of Michigan Avenue facade of the John Hancock Center, with surrounding buildings visiblePhoto: Ben Schumin from Montgomery Village, Maryland, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
Palmolive Building: Interior
5/6 · InteriorPhoto: Stephen Hogan from Chicago, United States · CC BY 2.0 · source
Palmolive Building: Detail
6/6 · DetailPhoto: Tichnor Brothers, Publisher · Public domain · source
Photo 1: Exterior · Palmolive Building , former Playboy BuildingPhoto 2: Exterior · The Palmolive Building, formerly the Playboy Building, is a 37-story Art Deco building at 919 NPhoto 3: Exterior · Palmolive Building in Chicago, at 919 NPhoto 4: Exterior · Upward view of Michigan Avenue facade of the John Hancock Center, with surrounding buildings visiblePhoto 5: InteriorPhoto 6: Detail

Office & tower · Art Deco

Palmolive Building

Holabird & Root · Chicago, United States · 1929

Key featuresA limestone Art Deco tower of stepped setbacks rising to a beacon mast.

Architect
Holabird & Root
Place
Chicago, United States
Year
1929
Typology
Office & tower
Movement
Art Deco
Region
Americas
See it on the wall

Go deeper

DatabasearchINFORM ↗StructureStructurae ↗LocationMap ↗Projects & drawingsArchDaily ↗Plans & sectionsWikiArquitectura ↗News & featuresDezeen ↗ReadWikipedia ↗WatchYouTube ↗More photosWikimedia Commons ↗

Drift onward

Chicago Board of Trade BuildingHolabird & Root · 1930Palazzo della Civiltà ItalianaGiovanni Guerrini, Ernesto Bruno La Padula, Mario Romano · 1943Sveriges Riksbank BuildingPeter Celsing · 1976MesseturmHelmut Jahn · 1991Hagen CrematoriumPeter Behrens · 1907Lenin's MausoleumAlexey Shchusev · 1930