Modern Tower Askew Aside Chicago’s New Historic Landmark

Title: Modern Tower Askew Aside Chicago’s New Historic Landmark
Shot Taken From: Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel, Chicago IL
Google Earth: 41.886389, -87.628319
About the photo: Trump International Hotel & Tower® Chicago Building also known as Trump Tower Chicago and Trump Tower, is a skyscraper condo-hotel in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The building was designed by architect Adrian Smith of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Bovis Lend Lease built the 98-story structure, which reached a height of 1,389 feet (423 m) including its spire, its roof topping out at 1,170 feet (360 m). The building stands out against the older black building (330 North Wabash) formerly IBM Plaza also known as IBM Building and now renamed AMA Plaza. The building's corporate namesake no longer owns the building. IBM sold Plaza IBM to the Blackstone Group in 1996. IBM completed its move out of IBM Plaza as of early 2006, taking up space in the new Hyatt Center building closer to Union Station. The building was declared a Chicago Landmark on February 6, 2008 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 26, 2010. It is also the newest building in Chicago in terms of age on both lists.

General Info: I’m born and raised in Tucson, Arizona but currently live in Albuquerque, NM. I think my real interest in cities and buildings came from living in Atlanta, GA while getting my Master’s in Science in Electrical Engineering. I love buildings because they can have a special blend of engineering and art.
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