Legacy Tower

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The Legacy at Millennium Park
Legacy Tower
The Legacy at Millennium Park
View from Millennium Park
Basic data
Place: Chicago , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
Construction time : 2007-2010
Status : Built
Architectural style : Modern
Architect : Solomon, Cordwell, Buenz and Associates
Use / legal
Usage : Apartments
Owner : Mesa Development Company
Technical specifications
Height : 250 m
Height to the roof: 250 m
Top floor: 231 m
Rank (height) : 13th place (Chicago)
45th place (USA)
Floors : 71
Building material : Structure: reinforced concrete ;
Facade: glass

The Legacy at Millennium Park , better known as the Legacy Tower , is the name of a skyscraper in Chicago that was completed in 2010. The building is 250 meters high and has 71 floors.

Construction of the building began in 2007 and was completed in 2010. The tower had already reached its maximum height in mid-2009, so that the external construction work could already be completed by this time. Complete completion was at the beginning of 2010. Inside the high-rise building there are 360 ​​luxury apartments and 460 parking spaces. On the lower floors, the building will also contain 3,800 m² of classrooms for the Illinois Institute of Art . The building is the tallest residential building in the city and the third tallest in the United States. The tower has a rectangular base and was completely clad with glass on the outside.

The narrow design of the building offers every resident a vantage point of Lake Michigan and the park.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Entry about Legacy Tower at Emporis

Web links

Commons : Legacy Tower  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 41 ° 52 '53.2 "  N , 87 ° 37' 32.4"  W.

View from below of the tower (side)