St. Regis Chicago
Architect: Studio Gang
Installer: Architectural Glass Works
Location: Chicago, Illinois
In August 2016, construction began on The St. Regis Chicago. The 1,200-foot, 95-story tower will be the third tallest in Chicago. It will contain nearly 400 condos, a 250-room five-star hotel, extensive retail space, and many amenities. The iconic addition to the Chicago skyline will appear as three separate towers, and features a tessellating design inspired by the mineral fluorite.
At the base of the tower, a 10-story glass cube protrudes from the structure. The cube will house an atrium, restaurants, and hotel rooms. A unique exoskeletal frustum geometry is achieved by the use of a two-way VS1 jumbo mullion structure with internal star nodes. VS1 was selected for this feature wall after a two year international technical search for a solution.
The VS1 system clear spans 42 feet between the 2nd and 5th floor creating a dramatic space for a new restaurant. The system runs floor-to-floor from levels 5 to 10 creating unobstructed glass walls for the hotel rooms with no metal on the room interiors.
Timelapse by Engineering News-Record