Smurfit-Stone Building

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Smurfit-Stone Building

Location	150 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
Status	Complete
Constructed	1983
Opening	1984
Roof	575 feet (175 meter)
Floor count	42
Companies
Architect	A. Epstein and Sons

150 North Michigan Avenue, formerly known as the Smurfit-Stone Building is a 42 story, 575 foot (175 meter) skyscraper at 150 North Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago, Illinois. It was also known as the Stone Container Building and was formerly called the Associates Center. It is popularly referred to as the Diamond Building. Construction began in 1983 and was completed in 1984. The building, noted for its unusually slanted roof, was designed by Sheldon Schlegman of A. Epstein and Sons. Its 41 floors does not include five unused levels in the narrowest portion at the very peak of the diamond. Although the building looks as though it is split down the middle, the two sides are only slightly disjointed until nearing the top, where there is a gap between them. At times, its slanted roof--which has been likened to a skyscraper slashed with a knife--displays local sports slogans on its face, such as "GO BEARS" and "GO SOX".

A popular urban legend states that the building was designed to resemble a vagina, but a spokesperson for the architectural firm that designed the building denied that it was supposed to be an anti-phallic symbol.

[edit] In popular culture

Three years after its completion, the building played a central role in Touchstone Pictures hit film, Adventures in Babysitting. Thus, many Chicagoans refer to this building as the Adventures in Babysitting building.

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