Chicago Tall Buildings, USA : Information + Images

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 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