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Here are some photos I took from the ground floor and 37 floors above the demolition of the Sun-Times Building in Chicago to make way for the new Trump Tower.
Here’s some stuff on the new building from Emporis:
* The building was originally planned with a large office section on the lower floors, but sales of the residential portion performed so well that the office floors were dropped from the plan.
* When this project was originally announced, it was proclaimed as a future world’s tallest building. After the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001 the plans were scaled down a few hundred feet.
* Designed by Adrian D. Smith, FAIA, RIBA Design Partner at Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP.
* The tower is being constructed on the site formerly occupied by the low-rise headquarters of the Chicago Sun-Times, one of the city’s two major newspapers.
* A unique asymmetric shape will give the building a different appearance from each angle. Because of its site it will form a dramatic terminus to North Wabash Avenue looking south, and to the Chicago River looking west from its mouth.