Citigroup Center - Chicago, Illinois - Skyscrapers on Waymarking.com

The Citigroup Center building is a multi-use building. Primarily it is a skyscraper office building. In the below ground level, there is access to the train station. In the lobby there are restaurants.

Other interesting facts of the Citigroup Center are:

• The first two floors house a major commuter railroad station serving the north and west suburbs.
• The north and south façades resemble a waterfall with cascading curves of blue glass. The architect used similar forms on the interior of the Chicago Board of Trade Addition.
• The main entrance on Madison is a recessed telescoping archway, a device used by early Chicago architect Louis Sullivan in the Transportation Pavilion at the 1893 World's Fair.
• This is the tallest all-glass building in Chicago.
• The office lobby is approached by long escalators rising to the top of the atrium above the train station.
• The front atrium rises through an open three-dimensional grid of structural columns and beams, which were clad in blue until the 2004 renovation.
• The entrance with the heaviest traffic is a glass bridge connecting the station with a passageway in the art-deco Riverside Plaza.
• The east and west facades are outlined by a border of horizontal silver and dark blue stripes.

Building Name: Citigroup Center Structure Height: 588 Number of Stories: 42 Year Built: 1987 Architect/Design Firm: Murphy/jahn Associates Style: Post-Modern Use: Office Building Publicly accessible areas: The lobby has guards to help you and restaurants to feed you. Address: Citigroup Center 500 West Madison Street Chicago, IL 60601 Building Website: [Web Link] The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) link: [Web Link] Hours: Not listed Cost: Not listed

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