Formerly: JPMorgan Chase Center Formerly: Bank One Corporate Center Built: 2000-2003 Designed by: DeStefano + Partners Type: Skyscraper Stories: 37 Maximum Height: 580 feet / 177 meters Location: 131 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, United States
Building Rating 60% of readers like the Citadel Center.
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O ccupying the southern half of a city block in the heart of the Loop, Citadel Center tries hard to be friendly with its neighbors, but doesn't quite fit in with its surroundings.
Citadel Center features a half-block eastern setback that keeps it from overshadowing the all-important State Street corridor. But the tradeoff is that the tower portion casts the Dearborn side in darkness, in spite of its shiny glass cladding and convex shape. There simply isn't enough light shared by the dark stone buildings in the area for this building to effectively reflect light into the street.
That's not to say this building is bad in design. It's just a victim of circumstances. The building has many good attributes, like the setbacks near the corners that give it a little vertical visual interest, and the sparse grid that helps divide the building into visually appealing sections. The roof overhang is also nice, as it presents this building as a more human-scale dwelling, rather than some random skyscraper piercing the clouds and finishing out of view.
Architecture firm of record: DeStefano and Partners
Design consultants: Ricardo Bofill Arquitectura
Rentable floor space: 1,500,000 square feet
March 17, 2003: The Chicago Tribune reports that Bank One will leave its namesake tower. When Bank One merged with JPMorgan Chase, the company pledged that this would be one of the locations for its consolidated operations. Guess not.
Brent Kampert
Monday, May 4th, 2009 @ 12:20pm
Rating: Five stars. I like this building so much, that I took 4 pictures from 4 different locations. The one that was the most interesting, was getting a picture from the Symphony Center Lot on Wabash Avenue, looking northwest. It is so cool, that it will forever be a Chicago Landmark.
dan
Saturday, March 7th, 2009 @ 4:05pm
Rating: Four stars. I work at this building and it has an amazing lobby. Gleaming metal and some kind of stone walls. Even the elevators are nice.
Russ
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 @ 6:52pm
Rating: Five stars. Danger!! Do not attempt to look at this building without wearing shades.. It IS gorgeous though, innit? Like a shimmering tower of mercury rising up into the Heavens..
Brent Kampert
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 @ 2:38pm
Rating: Five stars. I like this building's profile on the Chicago Skyline and it's design. If your looking northwest from the Planetarium, you will be able to see this building between the Metropolitan Tower and Chase Tower. It's really neat.
mitch weingand
Monday, December 25th, 2006 @ 10:11am
the brightest,best building in chicago.the perfect size,the perfect style respectfully mr.weingand
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