• 1000 South Clark• 1001 South State• 171 North Halsted• Aon Center• Block 37• Chicago Architecture Foundation• Kemper Building• LondonHouse• MILA• Moment• NEXT• OHC2015• Open House Chicago• Optima II• River Point
Block 37, from the Kemper Building
We’ve already told you our feelings on Aon Center stealing the show at Open House Chicago 2015. One of our favorite features of Aon’s 71st-floor vantage point, as well as the one high atop the Kemper Building‘s 41st-floor observation deck (new windows!) was being able to look out across the city and check on the progress of several construction projects.
It’s one thing to stand at street level and look up to see how a Chicago skyscraper is coming along; it’s a whole new ballgame when you can glance down and see the work being done.
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- A closer look at workers on the roof of Block 37, from Aon Center.
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- Looking across town at River Point, from Aon Center
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- 171 North Halsted, the “Curve on the Kennedy.”
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- Next, at 347 West Chestnut, as it looks from the Kemper Building.
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- Work continues on LondonHouse at 360 North Michigan Avenue.
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- The tower crane atop Moment, at 545 North McClurg, rises among its towering neighbors.
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- To the south from Aon Center, 1000 South Clark looks nearly complete.
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- MILA, 200 North Michigan Avenue, from the observation deck atop the Kemper Building.
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- Looking straight down State Street (That Great Street) from the Kemper Building at the mostly-hidden 1001 South State.
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- Shadows creep across the work site of Optima II.
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- There are two buildings going up at 500 North Milwaukee Avenue. Only the west tower is visible from Aon.
Disclosure: The Chicago Architecture Foundation provided priority access passes to the Chicago Architecture Blog which helped facilitate this article.
