190 South La Salle Street in Chicago

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190 South La Salle Street

190 South La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois, The Loop 60603
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190 South LaSalle is another very-1980's skyscraper, with its beige exterior and faux gabled roof. But what it lacks in originality, it more than makes up for in height. It appears to be a very tall château complete with small rose windows in the gables and arched one-story windows capping the vertical window elements, unifying them into a single form. Perhaps too much effort was spent emphasizing the verticality of these windows, as their proportions make it look like some kind of ritzy high-rise jail. It is most notable, however for the fact that this was John Burgee's first skyscraper in his native Chicago.

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  • May, 2006 - C.B. Richard Ellis buys this building for $137,000,000.
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  • The design of this building was inspired by Burnham and Root's now demolished Masonic Temple from 1892.
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  By far one of the best skyscrapers built in Chicago in the last 60 years! Note: it's an actual gabled roof, there's a law library inside the gable, also not rose windows (not all round windows are rose windows). I don't like beige when it's vinyl siding or EIFS, but when it's actual stone, that's another story. Interior is stunning also!

Samuel Lima - Sunday, April 13th, 2008 @ 1:11am  

  For graduate school, I went to UIC and I would sometimes walk from there to the South Loop area. I have always loved this building and thought of it as one of the classiest newer structures built in the city, even if "newer" here means the 1980s.

David Shmuel - Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 @ 11:03pm  

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