Chicago's Lake Point Tower is turning 50

2018-09-20T18:33:00-04:00

As Lake Point Tower, once the world’s tallest all-residential high-rise, celebrates its 50th anniversary this weekend, it’s an apt time to reflect on its legacy. The 70-story condominium tower, which sits just west of Navy Pier at 505 N. Lake Shore Drive, is both hero and villain, though it is more the former than the latter.

Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin looks back at the history and the significance of Lake Point Tower; as he calls it "by all accounts a spectacular and rare object — a poetic expression of curves in a city that worships the right angle."

Kwong Von Glinow Design Office is named the recipient of the 2016 Chicago Prize

2017-03-23T16:37:00-04:00

The Chicago Architecture Club named Lake Forest's Kwong Von Glinow Design Office the recipient of the 2016 Chicago Prize. This is a biennial prize given for the design of an international competition. This year's competition, titled On the Edge, asked architects and designers to rethink Lake Shore Drive's connection to Chicago's waterfront. Kwong Von Glinow Design Office's proposal, titled Lattices on the Drive, seeks to enhance the pedestrian's relationship to Lake Shore Drive. At each underpass which leads to the Lake, an access point at the media brings pedestrians up to a steel-frame viewing deck from which they can see the Lake, the city, and of course, Lake Shore Drive. An exhibition of their winning proposal will be in the lobby of the Chicago Architecture Foundation through June.

Lap Chi Kwong and Alison Von Glinow co-founded Kwong Von Glinow Design Office in Chicago in 2016. Both partners earned their Masters of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of D...

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Chicago's Lake Point Tower is turning 50

Kwong Von Glinow Design Office is named the recipient of the 2016 Chicago Prize