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This 30 story building, standing at 475 feet (145 m) in height, fronts Chicago's Michigan Avenue and Grant Park.The 40-foot (12 m) pyramid at the top of the building (which Schulze & Harrington, authors of Chicago's Famous Buildings, compare with the Tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus), with its new zinc-coated stainless steel sheathing, is peaked by a 20-foot (6 m) glass "beehive" ornament ...
Watterson is composed of ten of these houses, (five in each tower), and each is considered—in terms of campus governance—to be its own residence hall. The houses used to be named after the first ten secretaries of state of the United States. As of 2020 each house is now an alphabet letter. A house at the bottom, and E house at the top.
The tower also features a luxury hotel condominium with 339 guest rooms. [10] The building includes, from the ground up, retail space, a parking garage, a hotel, and condominiums. [11] The 3rd through 12th floors house lobbies, retail space, and the parking garage; the 14th floor and its mezzanine hosts a health club and spa. The 17th floor ...
Fang Island released a song called "The Illinois" on their 2010 self-titled album that was inspired by the design. [4]In 2014, Chicago-based Goose Island Brewery began bottling an IPA named The Illinois in honor of Wright's design, with label art featuring a hop cone design rendered to appear as if it were one of the architect's trademark stained glass windows.
110 North Wacker, also known as the Bank of America Tower, [1] is a 57-floor skyscraper in Chicago located at 110 North Wacker Drive. [2] It was developed by the Howard Hughes Corporation and Riverside Investment & Development. [3] It was designed by Goettsch Partners [1] with construction by Clark Construction. [4]
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Articles relating to the Princes in the Tower, the mystery of the fate of the deposed Edward V of England and his younger brother Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, heirs to the throne of King Edward IV of England. They were last reported alive in 1483, while lodged in the Tower of London.
333 South Wabash (formerly CNA Center, nicknamed "Big Red") now the "Northern Trust Tower" [2] is a 600-ft (183 m), 44-story skyscraper located at 333 South Wabash Avenue in the central business district of Chicago, Illinois.