That’s nice for Gang, but beside the point, and dwelling on it leads too easily to predictable interpretations of skyscrapers as symbols of male identity. He liked Gang and offered her a shot.Ī lot of attention-in Chicago, at least-has been given to the fact that Aqua is the tallest building in the world designed by a woman. A prime site in the project remained, Lowenberg told her, and he envisioned doing something more ambitious there. A couple of years ago, she was seated at a dinner next to Jim Lowenberg, a developer who had built a number of mediocre condominium towers in a huge development over the old Illinois Central rail yards, known as Lakeshore East. The building would be an achievement for any architect, but Gang, who has run her own firm since 1997, had never designed a skyscraper before and happened into this one almost by accident. You know this tower is huge and solid, but it feels malleable, its exterior pulsing with a gentle rhythm. Gang turned the façade into an undulating landscape of bending, flowing concrete, as if the wind were blowing ripples across the surface of the building. She started with a fairly conventional rectangular glass slab, then transformed it by wrapping it on all four sides with wafer-thin, curving concrete balconies, describing a different shape on each floor. But the architect, Jeanne Gang, a forty-five-year-old Chicagoan, has figured out a way to give it soft, silky lines, like draped fabric. Photograph by Steve Hall / Hedrich Blessing / Courtesy Studio GangĪqua-a new, eighty-two-story apartment tower in the center of Chicago-is made of the same tough, brawny materials as most skyscrapers: metal, concrete, and lots of glass. The new tower will include a half-acre park along the river.Aqua’s undulating façade is even more technically ingenious than it looks. The Goettsch Partners-designed tower is on the site of the former GGP headquarters building, a squat structure the developers demolished. Law firms Jones Day Perkins Coie Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and King & Spalding also have signed leases, along with investment bank Lincoln International and luxury co-working space provider No18. Morgan Chase, according to the developers.īank of America will occupy 523,000 square feet and move about 2,000 employees there from other Chicago buildings where it currently leases space. The building will cost $798 million, backed by $559 million in construction debt led by Bank of America and J.P. The Wacker Drive tower will be 815 feet tall, making it the tallest office building in the city completed since 1990 - when the 64-story Two Prudential Plaza (995 feet) and the 65-story tower at 311 S. Executives from the Charlotte, N.C.-based bank and the development firms on Tuesday held a topping out ceremony, just ahead of the completion of concrete and steel atop the building. It’s unclear how much longer the economy will continue to sustain a construction cycle that has filled Chicago’s skyline with a wave of new high-rises, including several along the river.īut Dallas-based Howard Hughes and Chicago-based Riverside already have capitalized on demand for new riverfront offices, with almost 70% of the 1.5 million-square-foot building’s space leased well ahead of its planned opening in fall 2020. and Riverside Investment & Development said.
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Wacker Drive, is scheduled to reach its full height later this month, developers Howard Hughes Corp. Construction of Chicago’s tallest office tower in 30 years is about to top out, providing another milestone in the city’s decadelong construction boom.īank of America Tower, a 55-story building under construction along the Chicago River at 110 N.
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