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Lake Point Tower from St. Regis Chicago between Navy Pier and Lake Shore Drive, 2022. The architects for Lake Point Tower were John Heinrich and George Schipporeit, working under the firm name of Schipporeit and Heinrich; the two were students of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the best known architects of the Bauhaus movement and International Style school, who taught at the Illinois ...
Chicago has the second-tallest skyline in the United States after New York City, and leads the nation in the twenty tallest women-designed towers in the world, thanks to contributions by Jeanne Gang and Natalie de Blois. As of December 2019, Chicago had 125 buildings at least 500 feet (152 m) tall. [5]
The basement also contained a 150-spot parking garage. [159] As of 2022, the building's base covers 463,000 square feet (43,000 m 2) and contains two lobbies for tenants. [121] [122] The building's tenants primarily enter from Wacker Drive and Franklin Street.
As temperatures slowly drop in Chicago, 300 million to 400 million birds are crossing the continent heading south to their nesting grounds for the winter, according to Annette Prince, director and ...
University hall (in the skyline) at dusk in December. University Hall was designed in the Brutalist style, along with much of the rest of the east campus (formerly "Circle Campus"), by Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. [3] The offices of the university chancellor are located on the top floor.