Lakeshore East’s Newest Skyscraper Gets a Name
I’ve been super busy this week with a photography assignment on the South Side* and have barely been checking my e-mail. That’s why I missed the tip from our Lakeshore East spy that Magellan...
View ArticleCrane’s Up, and The Coast is Clear at Lakeshore East
Construction is underway at the newest skyscraper at the Lakeshore East subdivision of the New Eastside portion of the Loop neighborhood of Chicago. A crane has been erected for The Coast (345 East...
View ArticleStatus Update: The Coast
Magellan Development’s latest water-named tower is progressing nicely. The Coast (345 East Wacker Drive) is going up in Lakeshore East, obliterating the lake and city views of thousands of people in...
View ArticleStatus Update: The Coast is Clear
Lakeshore East’s newest skyscraper continues to grow. The Coast (345 East Wacker Drive) has cleared the top level of the triple-decker street and is now headed skyward, obliterating the views of...
View ArticleCoast Crane Jumps the Swissôtel
While you were enjoying Sunday doing whatever it is that you do on Sundays, the team at The Coast (345 East Wacker Drive) was busy raising its tower crane. One of our Lakeshore East spies sent us a...
View ArticleLooking at Lakeshore East
One of the very first posts we put on this blog almost ten years ago showed the early days of the development of Lakeshore East. Back then the area that would become downtown Chicago’s newest master...
View ArticleStatus Update: The Coast
The Coast continues to rise at 345 East Wacker Drive, on the edge of the Lakeshore East development. Now that it’s mostly put together, it turns out to be quite a nice looking building. BKL...
View ArticleThe Height of the Coast
As they say in the upper Midwest, “That’s all the further she goes!” The Coast (345 East Wacker Drive) has officially topped out, according to a post on bKL Architects Facebook page. The building has...
View ArticleStatus Update: A Crane Flies Along The Coast
Workers on Monday started taking down the tower crane that helped build The Coast (345 East Wacker Drive) for the last year or so. The glazing crew has one full floor left into which to insert windows,...
View ArticleThe Backstory on bKL – The Young Chicago Firm Leading the Pack on Wolf Point
In Chicago’s lexicon of TLA’s (three-letter acronyms), it’s not as commonly spoken as LSD, UIC, or ORD. But in architecture circles it may soon be as well-known as SOM, or SCB. It’s bKL, the shiny new...
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