Chicago: Skyscraper
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John Hancock Center
Sky-high city views from 94th-floor deck Rising above the skyline of Chicago, the John Hancock Center is an iconic skyscraper that has become synonymous with the city's architectural grandeur. Completed in 1969, this towering structure stands at an impressive 1,128 feet (344 meters), making it one of the...
Tribune Tower
Skyscraper with French Gothic elements The Tribune Tower is a 463-foot-tall, 36-floor neo-Gothic skyscraper located at 435 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Merchandise Mart
The Merchandise Mart is a commercial building located in downtown Chicago, Illinois. When it was opened in 1930, it was the largest building in the world, with 4 million square feet of floor space. The Art Deco structure is located at the junction of the Chicago River's branches.
150 North Riverside
150 North Riverside Plaza is a highrise building in Chicago, Illinois, completed in 2017. The building is 54 stories tall. The building occupies a two-acre site on the west bank of the Chicago River, whose size and location demanded an unusually small base for the building.
One Magnificent Mile
One Magnificent Mile is a mixed-use high-rise tower completed in 1983 at the northern end of Michigan Avenue on the Magnificent Mile in Chicago containing upscale retailers on the ground floor, followed by office space above that and luxury condominium apartments on top.
Huron Plaza
Huron Plaza is a 560ft tall skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. It was completed in 1983 and has 56 floors. Gordon and Levin designed the building, which is the 51st tallest in Chicago.
Illinois Center
Illinois Center is a mixed-use urban development in downtown Chicago, Illinois, USA, lying east of Michigan Avenue. It is notable in that the streets running through it have three levels.
Plaza on DeWitt
The Plaza on DeWitt was completed in 1966 as a residential apartment building at 260 E. Chestnut Street in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago.
Atwater Apartments
Atwater Apartments is an apartment skyscraper adjacent to the Streeterville neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It was previously called Streeter Place. The building was completed in 2009. It contains 54 stories, 480 units, and many amenities.
Clark Adams Building
The Clark Adams Building, also known as the Bankers Building, is a skyscraper located at 105 West Adams Street in Chicago, Illinois.
Onterie Center
The Onterie Center is a sixty-story award-winning high rise in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is located at 441 East Erie St, and takes its name from a conflation of "Ontario" and "Erie", the streets at its two entrances.
One Superior Place
One Superior Place is a 502 ft tall skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. It was constructed from 1998 to 1999, and has 52 floors. Loewenberg + Associates designed the building, which is tied with 10 South LaSalle as the 87th tallest building in Chicago.
Legacy at Millennium Park
The Legacy at Millennium Park is a 72-story skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, United States, located along S. Wabash Avenue, near E. Monroe Street. At 822 feet, it is the thirteenth-tallest building in Chicago.
The Grant
The Grant is the companion structure to One Museum Park in the Near South Side community area in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It is located at the north end of the Central Station development.
Lake Point Tower
Lake Point Tower is a residential skyscraper located on a promontory of the Lake Michigan waterfront in Chicago, just north of the Chicago River at 505 North Lake Shore Drive.
North Pier Apartments
North Pier Apartments is a 581 ft tall skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. It was completed in 1990 and has 61 floors. Dubin Dubin Black and Moutoussamy designed the building, which is the 43rd tallest and the tallest precast concrete panel clad building when completed, in Chicago.
Lakeshore East Building I
Lakeshore East Building I is the address of the as-yet unnamed skyscraper that is part of the 2018 revision of the Lakeshore East development masterplan.
River City Building
River City is a mixed-use building at 800 South Wells Street in Chicago, Illinois. It was designed by Bertrand Goldberg, to whose Marina City it bears clear affinities, and was completed in 1986 in the South Loop neighborhood of Chicago.
River Point
River Point, previously known as 200 North Riverside Plaza, is a 52-story 730 ft. tall skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, located at 444 West Lake Street. The 52-story building has 1 million square feet of floor space.
340 on the Park
340 on the Park is a residential tower in the Lakeshore East development of the neighborhood of New Eastside/ East Loop Chicago and was completed in 2007. The building briefly surpassed 55 East Erie as the tallest all-residential building in Chicago. It is the second-tallest all-residential building in Chicago at 672 feet with 62 floors.
The Buckingham
The Buckingham, formerly known as Buckingham Plaza, is a 44-story all-residential condominium designed by Fujikawa Johnson & Associates. Located on East Randolph Street in Chicago, Illinois, the building sits between the new 340 on the Park building to its west and the older Outer Drive East building to its east.
The Parkshore
The Parkshore is a 556 ft tall skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. It was completed in 1991 and has 56 floors. Barancik Conte designed the building, which is the 53rd tallest in Chicago. The pool on the 56th floor is the highest outdoor pool in Chicago.
One Museum Park
One Museum Park is a skyscraper in Chicago, United States. It was designed by Chicago-based architecture firm Pappageorge Haymes, Ltd. and is located in the Near South Side community area.
108 North State Street
108 North State Street, also known as Block 37, is a development located in the Loop community area of downtown Chicago, Illinois.
Old Chicago Main Post Office
The Old Chicago Main Post Office is a nine-story-tall building in downtown Chicago. The original building was designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and built in 1921, but the structure was expanded greatly in 1932 in order to serve Chicago's great volume of postal...
Palmolive Building
The Palmolive Building, formerly the Playboy Building, is a 37-story Art Deco building at 919 N. Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Built by Holabird & Root, it was completed in 1929 and was home to the Colgate-Palmolive-Peet corporation.
The Montgomery
The Montgomery is a 404-foot tall, 26-story skyscraper in Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois. It was built in 1972 as part of the Montgomery Ward Company Complex to serve as a corporate headquarters.
Francesca's Bryn Mawr
The Bryn Mawr Apartment Hotel is a 12-story building in the Bryn Mawr Historic District in far-north neighborhood community of Edgewater in Chicago, Illinois. Located on North Kenmore Avenue, it is across the road from the Belle Shore Apartment Hotel.
400 East Randolph
400 East Randolph Street Condominiums or simply 400 East Randolph is a 40-story high-rise in Chicago, Illinois, designed by Reinheimer & Associates.
OneEleven
OneEleven is a luxury rental apartment tower located in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The building is located between LaSalle Street and Clark Street, adjacent to River North and directly on the Chicago River.
North Harbor Tower
North Harbor Tower is a 556 ft tall skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, US. It was completed in 1988 and has 55 floors. Fujikawa Johnson & Associates designed the building, which is the 53rd tallest in Chicago.
The Heritage at Millennium Park
The Heritage at Millennium Park, located at 130 N. Garland Court in Chicago, Illinois is a mixed-use tower. Completed in 2005, with a height of 631 feet and 57 floors, the building was designed by the architectural firm Solomon Cordwell Buenz.
River East Center
River East Center is a Chicago skyscraper that is a part of the larger River East complex.
Builders Building
222 North LaSalle, also known as the Builders Building, is a building located at 222 North LaSalle Street in the Chicago Loop. Built in 1927, it was significantly renovated between 1980 and 1986. It faces the south side of the Chicago River.
Crain Communications Building
The Crain Communications Building is a 39-story, 582 foot skyscraper located at 150 North Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago, Illinois. It was also known as the Smurfit–Stone Building and the Stone Container Building.
Manhattan Building
The Manhattan Building is a 16-story building at 431 South Dearborn Street in Chicago, Illinois. It was designed by architect William Le Baron Jenney and constructed from 1889 to 1891.
Gateway Tower
The Gateway Tower is a conceptual proposal to illustrate a potential use of the abandoned site once planned to house the Chicago Spire in the Streeterville neighborhood of the Near North Side of Chicago.
Lake Shore
680 N Lake Shore Drive is a 29-story building located in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Originally named the American Furniture Mart, was completed in 1926. The two halves were designed separately: the eastern half by Raeder, George C. Nimmons, and Max Dunning; and the western half by Nimmons and Dunning alone.
Olympia Centre
The Olympia Centre is a skyscraper in Chicago. It is a mixed use building consisting of offices in the lower part of the building and residences in the narrower upper section.
The Clare
The Clare is a high-rise senior independent living community situated on the Loyola University Chicago Water Tower Campus in Chicago's Gold Coast at Rush Street & Pearson Street.
Optima Signature
Optima Signature is a residential skyscraper in the Streeterville neighborhood of the Near North Side area in Chicago. The 57-story building is a joint venture between Optima Inc. and DeBartolo Development. It opened for occupancy in June 2017. The building has 490 units.
Mid-Continental Plaza
Mid-Continental Plaza is a 583 ft tall skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. It was completed in 1972 and has 49 floors. Shaw and Associates designed the building, which is the 62nd tallest building in Chicago.
333 West Wacker
333 West Wacker Drive is a highrise office building in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its reflection of the curves of the Chicago River on its river-facing side.
400 Lake Shore Drive
400 Lake Shore Drive is a 875-foot approved high-rise development in the Streeterville area of Chicago. The project, located at the previous site of the defunct Chicago Spire development, features two connected towers; the design calls for a height of 875 feet for the northern tower, and 765 feet for the southern tower.
Continental and Commercial National Bank
The Continental and Commercial National Bank is a historic office building located at 208 S. LaSalle Street in Chicago's Loop. The 21-story building was built in 1911-14 for the Continental and Commercial National Bank, at the time one of the largest banks in the nation.