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NCH01- Millennium Park Music Pavilion and Great
Lawn, Chicago - Gehry Partners NCH02- Chicago Federal Center, Chicago 1974 Mies van der Rohe, Architect NCH03- Chicago O'Hare International Airport - Part Redevelopment 2000-04 Murphy/Jahn Architects NCH04- Chicago Spire - aka Fordham Spire, Chicago 2006-10 Santiago Calatrava Architects NCH05- Trump International Hotel and Tower - 92 storeys: 2nd tallest skyscraper in USA NCH06- HALO Headquarters, Niles 1998-2000 Murphy/Jahn Architects NCH07- IBM Building, Chicago 1971 Mies van der Rohe, Architect NCH08- John Deere Headquarters, Moline 1964 Eero Saarinen NCH09- McCormick Tribune Campus Center - IIT 2003 Rem Koolhaas Architects / OMA NCH10- Millennium Park Music Pavilion and Great Lawn - Gehry Partners NCH11- The Sporting Club at Illinois Center 1987-90 Kisho Kurokawa NCH12- University of Chicago Hospitals - New Pavilion 2010 Rafael Vinoly Architects NCH13- Ward W. Willets House, Highland Park 1901 Frank Lloyd Wright NCH14- William H. Winslow House, River Forest 1893 Frank Lloyd Wright --------------- NCH15- 111 South Wacker 2005 Goettsch Partners 53 storeys NCH16- 340 on the Park 2007 Solomon Cordwell Buenz 62 storeys NCH17- Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio, Oak Park - Frank Lloyd Wright NCH18- Marina City - aka Corncob towers - Bertrand Goldberg NCH19- McCormick Tribune Campus Center - IIT 2003 Rem Koolhaas Architects / OMA NCH20- Millennium Park Music Pavilion and Great Lawn - Gehry Partners NCH21- Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 1996 Josef Paul Kleiheus NCH22- The Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts 2007-11 Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects NCH23- The Sporting Club at Illinois Center 1990 Kisho Kurokawa NCH24- Frank Lloyd Wright Residence, 951 Chicago Avenue, Oak Park 1889 Frank Lloyd Wright NCH25- Zero-energy tower - proposal 2007- Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture NCH26- University of Chicago Hospitals - New Pavilion 2010 Rafael Vinoly Architects |
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Soar subjects Check out the sky-scraping stats on some of the city’s loftiest points.
1.Ben Wallace (in full afro) 7 feet, 2 inches…(in cornrows) 6 feet, 9 inches 2.Chicago Temple (tallest church in the world) 556 feet, 6 inches 3.Trump Tower (when it’s completed in March 2009, including spire) 1,393 feet (92 floors) 4.John Hancock Center (including the antennas) 1,506 feet (100 floors) 5.Sears Tower (including antennas) 1,725 feet (110 floors) 6.Chicago Spire (when it’s completed in 2010) 2,000 feet (150 floors) Other highlights Monadnock Building (the world’s largest office
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