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Grant Thornton Tower (formerly Chicago Title & Trust Center, 161 North Clark and sometimes Chicago Title Tower [1]) is an office tower located in Chicago designed by the firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. Before completion in 1990 the twin tower design was awarded The Chicago Athenaeum's "Best Building" Architecture Award, the award was ...
Museum Park is a complex of multiple residential towers within the Central Station development at the southern edge of Grant Park, across Lake Shore Drive from Chicago's Museum Campus. Construction of One Museum Park was followed by the 54-story The Grant (formerly One Museum Park West), directly to the west at the corner of Roosevelt Road and ...
333 North Michigan is a skyscraper in the art deco style located in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois in the United States.Architecturally, it is noted for its dramatic upper-level setbacks that were inspired by the 1923 skyscraper zoning laws.
The Franklin Center is a 60-story supertall skyscraper in the Loop neighborhood of downtown Chicago.Completed in 1989 as the AT&T Corporate Center to consolidate the central region headquarters of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T), [2] it stands at a height of 1,007 ft (307 m) and contains 1.7 million sq ft (160,000 m 2) of floor space. [3]
333 South Wabash is a simple, rectangular International Style building, but it is unique in that the entire building was painted bright red by Eagle Painting & Maintenance Company, Inc., turning an otherwise ordinary-looking structure into one of the most eye-catching buildings in the city.
The original design called for a more extreme building. This 35 story, 638 foot (194 m) tower utilizes many of the existing caissons of the former U.S. Gypsum Building. The bulk of the building would be supported by a 120-foot (37 m) base and 20 large diagonal braces connected from the corners of the base to the bottom of the office structure.
Chicago's NEMA Tower consists of three stacked parts: a site-filling base; a square middle section with a southern extension that looks like a giant staircase; and an upper section with several indents. Together, these parts form a sculptural whole reminiscent of Willis, even though the structural systems of the two buildings are quite different.
An agreement was reached for United Continental Holdings to lease an additional 200,000 square feet (19,000 m 2) at Chicago's Willis Tower, joining the airline's operations center which leased an initial 470,000 square feet (44,000 m 2) in 2010. The company vacated the majority of their offices at 77 W. Wacker with the naming future of the ...