Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Nerves of steel

The Pencil Building. That’s what passersby already are calling 150 North Riverside, the recently opened 54-story office building along the river in downtown Chicago.

No wonder. Viewed from the north or south, its silhouette resembles a giant stylus stabbed into a tight urban plot. That the structure can balance such height and mass on a pinpoint, 39-foot-wide base defies the imagination.

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