Critics are coming out in favor of a distinctive new residential apartment tower from Jahn after the building opened at the south end of Michigan Avenue in Chicago in June. The 1000M project is a new high-rise accommodation meant to anchor the historic thoroughfare with 73 total stories and 738 units. 

Helmut Jahn is credited with leading its revised design from 2015 until his death in 2021, joined by a team that included Philip Castillo, Lynda Dossey, Peter Hayes, and Lucie Rigaldies. 

Residents enjoy access to its ground-floor lobbies from both the street level and a stately porte-cochere located on the western axis. The manipulation of air rights for this project allowed the design's floor plates to gradually expand at the northeast or southeast corners from a rectangular base into a more softened parallelogram form. 

A seven-level parking structure with 325 spaces services the building, which is draped to its cantilevering podium in a blue-green glass wall. An amenity level with an indoor pool, observation deck, small cabanas, and communal spaces is located on top. 

On the top floor, more amenities are included to bring the programmatic total to 80,000 square feet. Kara Mann is listed as the interior designer of the project, which yields several configurations ranging from studios to four-bedroom penthouses. This is the first tower in what will eventually be a larger cluster overlooking the city's Museum Campus.

Writing for the Chicago Tribune, critic Edward Keegan framed its "fine-scale detail" as a welcomed demarcation from earlier Jahn designs such as the Thompson Center and other contemporary luxury high-rises in the city. He added it "provides a compelling series of thoughtful and interesting design strokes that show one of our major talents bowing out at his creative peak."

Evan Jahn, President of Jahn, says of its new presence on the South Loop skyline: "The building stands as a testament to exceptional design, engineering, and execution, expressing our firm’s belief that perfection can only be achieved when nothing can be taken away."