Mixed use · Lakeshore East
The St. Regis Chicago
363 E Wacker Drive, Chicago2021
Studio Gang · Contemporary
Light study
Noon
12:00
Flat light. Good for comparing materials, less kind to depth.
The glass takes the color of the sky. On a clear afternoon the west and south faces go saturated blue; at blue hour the stems flatten into a single luminous edge above the river.
The study applies a color treatment to the photograph. It is a way of looking, not a measured solar model.
Photo: R Boed · CC BY 2.0 license · source file
Studio Gang’s riverfront tower, three stems of glass that shift as they rise — hotel and residences in Lakeshore East.
The St. Regis Chicago, formerly the Vista Tower, rises at 363 East Wacker Drive inside the Lakeshore East development. Jeanne Gang and Studio Gang organized it as three interconnected volumes of different heights. The outer stems step and lean just enough that the tower never reads as a single extruded box.
At 1,198 feet and 101 stories it is among the city’s tallest buildings, and the tallest structure in the world designed by a woman. The structural “blow-through” floors, left partly open, are part of how the tower meets Chicago wind — and part of why the silhouette breaks into light and dark bands.
The building is mixed use: a hotel and private residences, developed by Magellan Development Group. The structure was completed in 2020; this collection dates the profile to 2021, when the St. Regis presence on the river was fully in public view. Residences the studio can introduce are in the book, with a guide beside each one.
- In the collection
- 2021
- Height
- 1,198 ft · 101 stories
- Use
- Hotel and residences
- Architect
- Studio Gang · Jeanne Gang
- Developer
- Magellan Development Group
- Earlier name
- Vista Tower
Neighborhood
Lakeshore East
Lakeshore East is built land, a planned neighborhood on former rail yards between the river, Columbus Drive, and the lake. The St. Regis is its tallest marker: a blue-green shaft you can read from the riverwalk long before you reach the door.
- Chicago RiverwalkJust south, along Wacker
- Lake Shore East ParkA few blocks north, inside the neighborhood
- LakefrontEast, beyond Lake Shore Drive
Near north · lake to the east
- One Bennett Park
- The St. Regis Chicago
- Aqua Tower
- 860–880 Lake Shore Drive
- 875 North Michigan Avenue
- Marina City
Lake Michigan
The St. Regis Chicago · Lakeshore East. Open the building from its pin.
The pin map above is ours. A street map of The St. Regis Chicago loads from OpenStreetMap only if you ask for it.
Sources
In the book
Also in the collection
