Thomas J. Klutznick Company_Projects_Office Buildings_333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago

Chicago's Wacker Drive is the location of one of the city's premier showcase sites--at the bend in the Chicago River where both the roadway and the main channel of the waterway turn south. Here, in a joint venture with The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, Mr. Klutznick erected 333 West Wacker Drive, a 36-story office building that rises with tremendous confidence from its triangular base. The structure's northwest side, nearly three curving acres of banded green glass, sweeps dramatically in a 365-foot-wide arc that follows the curving street and river. And there is almost as much glass on the complex faceted sides that face the Loop. Maximizing the location's overlooked potential, 333 West Wacker Drive, which was cited for its contribution to the state of the art of structural engineering, sparked a developmental renaissance along Wacker Drive.

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Thomas J. Klutznick Company