The announcement marks the culmination of the highly-anticipated 55-story downtown riverfront building, which is a collaboration with the award-winning leasing, design and construction team of CBRE, Goettsch Partners and Clark Construction. The Howard Hughes Corporation® (NYSE: HHC) and Riverside Investment & Development announced today the opening of the trophy-class office tower at 110 North Wacker Drive. The 326-foot-tall mixed-use office tower includes pandemic-responsive design features, from seven landscaped terraces that allow for indoor/outdoor workspaces, to assistive smart building systems. The mixed-use office tower leverages advanced capacity-monitoring technology and ample outdoor space to promote tenant safety, health and wellness. Major contemporary Chicago Skyscrapers added on e-architect recently: The focus is on contemporary Chicago towers but information on older buildings is also welcome. We cover completed Chicago Skyscraper buildings, new building designs and architecture competitions across Illinois. We aim to include tower buildings / projects that are either of top quality or interesting, or ideally both. We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Chicago Skyscraper Buildings. Post updated JChicago Skyscraper Buildings This article was originally published on July 31, 2017.Chicago Skyscraper, IL Tower Architecture, Architects, Illinois Real Estate, American Property News Chicago Skyscrapers: Tall BuildingsĬontemporary Tower Developments Illinois, United States of America So, there are different measures, and the blow-through floor is just one of them, so I don't think it means anything about going too far." There are other measures, one of which is to have a pool filled with water that mitigates the sway of the tower. "I don't think so, I think that to deal with wind forces is a very common part of tall-building engineering, and the blow-through floor is one of these measures that has a great effect. On whether or not these adjustments mean we're building skyscrapers too high "That is true, I'm sure the developers would have rather kept the floor there, but it's one of the wind-mitigating measures that had to be taken, so they understood it of course." There is a little movement, always, but it is at a level that does not make people uncomfortable." There's actually a norm that dictates what is acceptable. get rid of the sway to acceptable levels. "It would sway enough to make people uncomfortable, potentially nauseous - of course, it depends on how strong the wind blows, so it's not a constant sway or movement, but during storms, there certainly would have been a level of movement that would make people too uncomfortable. On the sway of the building without the blow-through floor It proved to be very effective and it worked well with the design, so that's the strategy we moved forward with." We tested different options, and the most effective was doing a blow-through floor, which means taking out a level within the tower. We did that for the Vista Tower as well, and during wind-tunnel testing, the results showed that we had to mitigate the wind forces via several measures that we could develop further. During our design phase, one of the steps we take is to do wind-tunnel testing. "Well, it wasn't just us, I have to admit, we had a great team of engineers working with us. Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks with Juliane Wolf, one of the building's designers. So architects opted to leave the 83rd story of the building empty, creating a tunnel for the wind to rush through nearly 1,000 feet above the street. The engineers of the new Vista Tower were concerned that the building would sway in the wind - possibly enough to make its future inhabitants feel sick. Facebook Email This article is more than 5 years old.Ī 95-story skyscraper under development in Chicago is making room for the wind.
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