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Three entrances allowed visitors into the fairgrounds. Pedestrians could enter from the street onto the Midway or take a steamboat from downtown Chicago to a pier on the Fair’s lakefront. Most visitors however arrived via the railroad terminus at the southern end of the grounds. Those who entered via the two latter means first encountered the monumental Administration Building. Designed by New York architect Richard M. Hunt the enormous domed building housed the offices of the Exposition’s chief officers. It also set the tone for the Exposition’s fourteen “great” buildings establishing a uniform cornice height of 60 feet (18.25 meters) and a white-stuccoed geometrically logical Beaux-Arts aesthetic.[8

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博览会的其他几座重要建筑和荣誉法院以及行政中心的Great Basin呈线性形态而排布 ， 其中有机械馆、制造与文艺馆、电力馆、矿业馆 ， 除了最后两座建筑 ， 其他的建筑都由不同的设计事务所设计 。 这里是理想城市的核心地带 ， 建筑师都明白这些建筑需要有统一的风格 。 在这样的前提下 ， 建筑师不仅仅都运用了统一的檐口线 ， 同时还运用了25英尺（约7.6米）的凸窗作为建筑立面的标准化体系 。 [9