odernist Chicago skyscraper 515 North State Street, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Kenzo Tange in 1990 as the American Medical Association Building, unites traditional cart, a mobile food stall dating back to 17th-century Japan. Offering a modern twist on the historical typology, which traditionally had two wheels, this cart sits on six stainless steel cylinders, with the stainless steel refrigeration equipment and an array of jatoba wood shelves arranged on top. An open-ceiling structure, featuring a four-sided continuous LED ribbon, completes the design, crowned with a banner, which can be paired with a nearby 7m media wall, for displaying stills, text or moving images. ‘Although the cart is stationary, its abstracted metallic form is designed to imbue the lobby and adjacent public plaza with the image of movement,’ say Kelley and McNeil.
