|  | Hyatt Center
71 South Wacker Drive
Chicago IL United States
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| Status: | | | Construction Dates | | Began | 2002 | | Finished | 2005 | | Floor Count | 48 | | Basement Floors | 2 | | Floor Area | 157,934 m² |
|  | | Building Uses | | - office | | - parking garage | | - retail | | Structural Types | | - highrise | | Architectural Style | | - modern | | Materials | | - glass | | - steel | | - concrete |
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| | Heights | | Value | | Source / Comments | | | | Roof | | 679 ft | | | | | | | | | | Main roof | | 671 ft | | | | | | | | | | Top floor | | 659 ft | | | | | | | |
Description
• Design Architect: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
• Associate Architect: A. Epstein & Sons International, Inc.
• Landscape designer: Peter Schaudt
• The building's shape can be described as a "flattened football".
• The design of Hyatt Center by Harry Cobb of Pei Cobb Freid was originally planned as La Tour Hines in Paris by the Hines Corp.
• The building's plaza has been notorious for its unfriendly security and tenants only lobby. This has been called an "overreaction to 9/11".
• Original plans called for a 60 story tower designed by Lord Norman Foster and was planned to serve as headquarters for the Global Hyatt Corporation, plans were revised after 9/11 and the economic downturn.
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