This month’s issue of New Homes Magazine takes a look at Chicago’s tallest residential buildings under construction, which are soaring to unprecedented heights:
The Sears Tower, which for more than three decades was the tallest building in the world, stands 1,450 feet and, depending on how you count them, 108 stories tall. These are good facts to have tucked away as you try to appreciate the enormity of Shelbourne Development Ltd.’s proposed Chicago Spire. At 2,000 feet and 150 stories, the Santiago Calatrava-designed Spire would be 38 percent taller than the tower that for years was the undisputed giant of the world.
Take the Sears Tower and stack another 40-story high-rise on top of it, and you’re still not quite to the top of the twisting, corkscrew-like Spire, planned for 420 E. North Water St., in Streeterville.
Trump International Hotel & Tower will be just 88 feet shorter than The Sears Tower when it tops out at 92 floors, and across the Chicago River from Trump, Waterview Tower’s 90 stories put it just a few hundred feet under The Donald’s Chicago high-rise.
Building tall is in vogue for Chicago’s residential developers like never before.
Read the full story at New Homes Magazine online.