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Two Prudential Plaza is a 64-story skyscraper located in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois.At 995 feet (303 m) tall, it is the seventh-tallest building in Chicago as of 2022 and the 28th-tallest in the U.S., being only five feet from 1,000 feet, making it the closest of any building under 1,000. [1]
As of December 2019, Chicago had 125 buildings at least 500 feet (152 m) tall. [5] Chicago is the birthplace of the skyscraper. [6] [7] The Home Insurance Building, completed in 1885, is regarded as the world's first skyscraper. This building used the steel-frame method, innovated in Chicago. It was originally built with 10 stories, an enormous ...
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]
One Superior Place is a 502 ft (153m) tall skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. It was constructed between 1998 and 1999 and has 52 floors. [1] The building was designed by Loewenberg + Associates, and it is tied with 10 South LaSalle as the 87th tallest building in Chicago. The property is managed by Greystar Real Estate Partners.
The Chicago Spire was a skyscraper project in Chicago that was partially built between 2007 and 2008 before being cancelled. Located at 400 N. Lake Shore Drive , it would have stood 2,000 feet (610 m) high with 150 floors and been the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
At 961 feet (293 m) tall, it is the ninth-tallest building in Chicago and the 36th tallest in the United States. It was once the tallest reinforced concrete building in the world. 311 South Wacker was also the tallest building in the world known only by its street address, until it was surpassed in height by New York's 432 Park Avenue in 2015 ...
The observatory (360 Chicago), [11] which competes with the Willis Tower's Skydeck, has a 360° view of the city, up to four states, and a distance of over 80 miles (130 km). 360 Chicago is home to TILT, a moving platform that leans visitors over the edge of the skyscraper to a 30-degree angle, [12] a full bar with local selections, [13 ...
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]