Built: 1987 Designed by: Johnson Burgee Architects Type: Skyscraper Stories: 40 Maximum Height: 573 feet / 175 meters Location: 190 South La Salle Street, Chicago, United States
Building Rating 80% of readers like the 190 South La Salle Street.
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1 90 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.
The design of this building was inspired by Burnham and Root's now demolished Masonic Temple from 1892.
May, 2006 - C.B. Richard Ellis buys this building for $137,000,000.
Samuel Lima
Sunday, April 13th, 2008 @ 1:11am
Rating: Five stars. 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!
David Shmuel
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 @ 11:03pm
Rating: Five stars. 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.
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Samuel Lima
Five stars.