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Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill unveil modest changes for Chicago's second-tallest tower

2019-11-13T21:00:00-05:00

Plans for a new 1,422-foot-tall tower designed by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture haven taken a step forward in Chicago, where developers Golub & Co and CIM Group have unveiled their latest iteration of the spire.

The four-sided tower is wrapped by curved and flat exposures and rises to a flat top marked by a pair of pointed corners resembling "the ears of Batman’s mask," according to The Chicago Tribune. As currently proposed, the glass-wrapped tower would rise just 29-feet shy of the Willis Tower, Chicago's longstanding tallest building. The tower would surpass the city's 1,380-foot Trump International Hotel & Tower, which is designed by Adrian Smith while he was a design partner at SOM Chicago, prior to founding AS+GG.

The 96-story tower is still a long way from being cleared for construction, however, as zoning approval for the project is still pending. The latest designs for the tower have made accommodations for site planning concerns raised by community members wh...

Plans unveiled for Chicago's second tallest skyscraper alongside repurposing the Tribune Tower

2018-04-17T15:59:00-04:00

Developers on Monday unveiled plans for Chicago’s second-tallest skyscraper, a tapering shaft of metal and glass that would soar above historic Tribune Tower, resemble the top of Batman’s black mask and be only 29 feet shorter than Willis Tower. If completed, the $1 billion-plus project to repurpose Tribune Tower and build a skinny, 1,422-foot high-rise just northeast of it would bring more than 700 residences and 200 hotel rooms to an area north of the Chicago River.

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture are working with Los Angeles developers Golub & Co. and CIM Group to build Chicago's next skyscraper. Their design would take over Trump International Hotel & Tower's title of second-tallest in the city.

Current plans for the new tower have construction beginning in late 2019. The new skyscraper would house a 200 room hotel, 439 rental apartments, and 125 condos in its upper floors. The site would be on what it now a surface parking lot behind Tribune Tower.

Their plans also call for repurposing Tribune Tower with 163 condominiums. This conversion will be headed up by Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB), with Vinci Hamp Architects brought on as historic preservation consultants. The earliest of these condo's would be ready by 2020.

Tribune Tower project rendering, Chicago. Image: Golub & Co. and CIM Group.

Passing $2B in sales, 432 Park becomes highest selling building in NYC ever

2018-02-07T21:53:00-05:00

CIM Group and Macklowe Properties announced on Wednesday that the world’s tallest residential building just broke another record: the single best-selling building in New York City. According to the developers, they have sold $2 billion in luxury condominiums at 432 Park Avenue, a 1,396-foot tower designed by renowned architect Rafael Viñoly. The building’s most significant closings include 48 residences selling for more than $20 million each.