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Chicago Tall Buildings, USA : Information + Images

Contemporary Tower Developments, Illinois, United States of America



Major Projects, alphabetical:

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

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 Skyscraper

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

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
19 storeys, 101m high

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
1967
Bertrand Goldberg
Mixed-use development : residential, commercial, retail, theatre, marina, health club, swimming pool
60 storeys

Office Tower, Chicago
1997
Goettsch Partners
446ft high

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

Sears Tower modernization and hotel
2009-
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Sears Tower Chicago
image © Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Sears Tower Chicago

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

The Trump International Hotel and Tower, downtown Chicago, Illinois
2009
Architect: Adrian Smith, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
415m high with spire, 96 storeys
Trump Tower Chicago

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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