Chicago Tribune — “Proposed Skyscraper Could Be Third-Tallest—Or Fifth Tallest—in Chicago”
April 14, 2015
“Backed by China’s Wanda Group and Chicago’s Magellan Development Group the new version of the tower retains the three-tiered profile, first shown last year, but adds a cloak of light-reflecting, blue-green glass and eliminates inset balconies that resembled zippers on its most visible facades.
At 1,144 feet, the skyscraper would be 8 feet taller than the city’s current third-tallest building, the Aon Center, provided it conforms to the standards of the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. The council arbitrates height disputes like the one in 2013 involving the controversial spire at New York’s One World Trade Center.
Called Wanda Vista, the skyscraper would be built on the north edge of the 28-acre Lakeshore East, a complex of apartments, condominiums, shops, a school and a hotel bounded by multilevel roads including Wacker Drive and Lake Shore Drive. The complex, which has a park at its center, is just north of Millennium Park.”
