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Major Projects (alphabetical):

111 South Wacker
2005
Goettsch Partners
office tower: 53 storeys, 1.5 m sqft

155 North Wacker
-
Goettsch Partners

340 on the Park
2007
Solomon Cordwell Buenz
62 storeys

860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments
1948-51
Mies van der Rohe, Architect
twin rectilinear towers

Aqua Tower - proposal
2008-
Studio Gang Architects

Chicago Federal Center
1974
Mies van der Rohe, Architect
Chicago buildings

Chicago Institute galleries
2007-
wHY architecture

Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center, 71 W. Van Buren St.
-
Harry Weese & Associates

Chicago O'Hare International Airport - Part Redevelopment
2000-04
Murphy/Jahn Architects

Crown Hall + IIT Masterplan
1940-
Mies van der Rohe, Architect
Chicago building

Fordham Spire - aka Chicago Spire: proposed skyscraper
2006-10
Santiago Calatrava Architects

Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio, Oak Park
-
Frank Lloyd Wright

Frederick C. Robie House: see Robie House
1906
Frank Lloyd Wright

Graduate School of Business - University of Chicago
2005
Rafael Viñoly Architects

Harold Washington Library Center, 400 South State Street
1991
Hammond, Beeby & Babka with A. Epstein & Sons International
Project director: Thomas Beeby

$195m

IBM Building, 330 North Wabash Avenue
1971
Mies van der Rohe, Architect with C. F. Murphy Associates

IIT Student Housing, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2001-03
Murphy/Jahn Architects

Illinois Blue Cross HQ
2006-10
Goettsch Partners
796 ft high
24 storeys added above existing 33 storey building, also by Goettsch Partners
$270m
For Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois

Inland Steel Building, 30 W. Monroe
1956-57/58
Skidmore Owings Merrill Architects - Walter Netsch

James R. Thompson Center, 100 W. Randolph Street
1985
Murphy/Jahn with Lester B. Knight & Associates

Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park
-
Gehry Partners, LLP

John Hancock Center – ‘Big John’, 875 North Michigan Ave
-
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill – SOM:
Bruce Graham (architect) with Fazhur R. Khan (engineer)

100 storeys, famous Chicago landmark

Marina City – ‘Corncob towers’, 300 N. State St
-
Bertrand Goldberg
Mixed-use development : residential, commercial, retail, theatre, marina, health club, swimming pool

McCormick Tribune Campus Center - IIT, 3201 South State St
2003
Rem Koolhaas Architects / OMA

McCormick Place West - Expansion
2007
Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates
$882m

Millennium Park Music Pavilion and Great Lawn
-
Gehry Partners


Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 220 East Chicago Avenue
1996
Josef Paul Kleiheus

Office Tower, Chicago
1997
Goettsch Partners
446ft high

Prentice Women’s Hospital
1974
Bertrand Goldberg Associates

The Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts
2007-11
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
International Architecture Competition winners
Shortlist: Hans Hollein; Fumihiko Maki and Associates; Morphosis; Studio Daniel Libeskind; Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
Approx. cost: $100m
For University of Chicago

Richard J. Daley Center
1965
C. F. Murphy Associates with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill – SOM + Loebl, Schlossman & Bennett

Robie House, 5757 Woodlawn Avenue
1906
Frank Lloyd Wright
For bicycle / motorcycle manufacturer Frederick C. Robie
The University of Chicago have owned the Robie House since1963

Sears Tower, Wacker Drive
1973
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Sears Tower

Sixteen at Trump Hotel
2008
Ivanka Trump with Valerio Dewalt Train Associates

Soldier Field football stadium
-
Wood + Zapata with Lohan Caprile Goettsch Associates

The Sporting Club at Illinois Center
1987-90
Kisho Kurokawa

University of Chicago Hospitals - New Pavilion
2010
Rafael Vinoly Architects
University of Chicago building
image from Rafael Viñoly Architects 220107
1,080,000 sqft

Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Condominium Tower - proposal
-
Destefano and Partners
335m high, 100 storeys - proposed

Zero-energy tower - proposal
2007-
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

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