LaSalle National Bank Building
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LaSalle National Bank Building is an art deco building in Chicago, USA.
The construction of LaSalle National Bank Building was completed 1934 as 163 metre high skyscraper with 45 storeys on South Clark Street in Chicago, U.S.A. The architect was Graham Anderson Probst and White.
Much equipment in this building were very modern e.g. high-speed elevators and air conditioning when it was completed in 1934. But one of the most well known thing is the bronze relief in the shape of the building in the lobby behind the information desk.
The world's first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building, and some other buildings around it stood there before constructing of this buiding(1931). This was the last office skyscraper in Chicago till 1955(One Prudential Plaza).
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The top two floors are dining rooms for the bank, and have a terrace having the view of the central Loop to the east.
