Former Chicago Spire Site Gets an Architect
We don’t do a lot of news about architects moving from one firm to another. If we did, we wouldn’t have time for anything else. But some moves are bigger than the Iron Mountain box used to transport a favorite T-square, bobblehead hula girl, and “Architects do it with models” coffee mug from one office to the next. They signal change coming. Such is the case with Michael Pfeffer. Crain’s Chicago...
OneEleven Resurrects a Dead High-Rise as a Gleaming New Skyscraper
From Florida to California and the fly-over country in-between, America is dotted with half-built abandoned commercial developments. The empty, forlorn hulk of the partially completed Waterview Tower, built in 2008, could very well have sat untouched for many more years. Then Related Midwest took a chance on it, pulled out all the stops on a massive do-over, and voila! OneEleven West Wacker was re-born. It’s 60 stories...