General Information
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Office building |
|---|---|
| Material: |
Steel structure |
Location
| Location: |
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA |
|---|---|
| Address: | 333 Wacker Drive |
| Coordinates: | 41° 53' 9.99" N 87° 38' 9.23" W |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| height | 149 m | |
| number of floors (above ground) | 36 | |
| office space | 96 800 m² |
Materials
| building structure |
steel
|
|---|
Notes
AIA Honor Award, National AIA 1984
Friends of Downtown Award for Best New Building Design 1986
Excerpt from Wikipedia
333 West Wacker Drive is a highrise office building in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its reflection of the curves of the Chicago River on its river-facing side.
Design features
On the side facing the Chicago River, the building features a curved green glass façade, while on the other side the building adheres to the usual rectangular street grid. The glass reflects both the sky and the river flowing next to it. The architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates who designed 333 also designed the high-rise buildings 225 W Wacker to the east, and 191 N Wacker Drive to the south.
The building marks the division between North Wacker Drive and West Wacker Drive as the street makes a 90 degree turn. Based on the Chicago grid system for street numbers, if the building had been given an address on North Wacker, the street number would have been an odd number between 200 and 300.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "333 Wacker Drive" and modified on July 22, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (1996): Skyscrapers. Black Dog & Loventhal, New York (USA), pp. 80-81.
- (2008): Skyscrapers. A History of the World's Most Extraordinary Buildings. 2nd edition, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc., New York (USA), ISBN 978-1-57912-787-9, pp. 82-83.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20000669 - Published on:
11/04/2000 - Last updated on:
26/06/2015
