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Monday, June 19, 2006
111 South Wacker Wins Awards from IALD, SEAOI
111 South Wacker, the new John Buck building designed by Goettsch Partners that, along with Pei Cobb Freed's Hyatt Center just across the street, seems to marking a resurgence in quality skyscraper design in Chicago after a long drought of abominable concrete condo towers, has garnered not one by two recent awards, from both the International Association of Lighting Designers, and the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois. Read all about the engineering challenges 111 South Wacker faced, and see the pictures, here.
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