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Structure-ID: s0038221
Created on: 07/25/08
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Chicago Spire

Construction phase: 2007 - 2012
Status: under construction
Address: 400 N Lake Shore Drive
Location: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Chicago Spire
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Function / usage:
Apartment building

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Designer Santiago Calatrava Valls

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Architecture Perkins & Will
  Santiago Calatrava SA
Structural engineering Thornton Tomasetti

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  height 609.6 m
  number of floors (above ground) 150

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Relevant Literature
* Dupré, Judith   Skyscrapers (2nd edition), Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc., New York (USA) , ISBN 1579127878, 2008; pp. 140-141.
* Tomasetti, Richard   Structural Engineering of the 600m Chicago Spire, presented at 17tth IABSE Congress, Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, Chicago, September 17-19, 2008.
* Walton, William   Geotechnical Engineering of the 600m Chicago Spire, presented at 17tth IABSE Congress, Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, Chicago, September 17-19, 2008.

 
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