Lake Point Tower
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| Location | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Status | Complete |
| Constructed | 196?-1968 |
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| Roof | 645 feet (197 m) |
| Floor count | 70 |
Lake Point Tower is a high-rise residential building located on a promontory of the Lake Michigan lakefront in downtown Chicago, just north of the Chicago River at 505 North Lake Shore Drive. It rises somewhat apart from the urban cluster of downtown Chicago in a composition that sets off and punctuates the skyline. The building is also the only skyscraper east of Lake Shore Drive.
The designers were John Heinrich and George Schipporeit, designing under the firm name of Schipporeit and Heinrich, who were students of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It was completed in 1968, is over 600 feet tall, and was the highest apartment building in the world at that time.
The body of the building encompasses 900 apartments (now privately owned condominiums). It has a reinforced concrete structure and a triangular core of elevators and a stairwell which can absorb horizontal forces. Because of this, the perimeter pillars on the facade do not need to be large as they only have to bear the vertical loads.
'The building's plan is composed of three equal prongs extending from a central core, and alights atop a masonry podium. The exteriors of the prongs are gently curved, giving the exterior of the building a rich, gleaming form. It is often described as having been inspired by a study model of a curvilinear high-rise building made by van der Rohe during the early phase of his career, but is much taller than that proposed building, more regular in form, and its exterior glass curtain wall is tinted. The reputations of the architects of the building are associated very much with this structure.
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[edit] Famous Residents
Lake Point Tower has been home to many affluant Chicagoans past & present, including:
- Sammy Sosa, formerly of the Chicago Cubs baseball team
- Alice Cooper, is a rock singer, songwriter and musician
- Ozzie Guillen, World champion Chicago White Soxs Skipper
[edit] Reference
- Skyscrapers, Antonino Terranova, White Star Publishers, 2003 (ISBN-8880952307)
- In 2007, the American Institute of Architects [1] listed Lake Point Tower as one of America's 150 favorite structures.
Ozzie Guillen- Chicago White Soxs coach
[edit] See also
- Chicago architecture
- List of buildings
- List of skyscrapers
- List of tallest buildings in Chicago
- List of tallest buildings in the United States
- World's tallest structures
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