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 who would rather see the tower's loading docks and car ports located below street level. 

The tower is set to rise on a parking lot located beside the historic Tribune Tower, which the developers are currently converting into 163 luxury condominiums and 47,500-square feet of retail spaces.