Two Prudential Plaza | |
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Height | 303m |
Floors | 64 |
Year | 1990 |
City | Chicago |
Two Prudential Plaza is a 64-story skyscraper located in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
At 995 ft (303 m) tall, it's now the sixth-tallest building in Chicago and the seventeenth-tallest in the U.S., being only five feet from 1,000 ft, making it the closest of any building under 1,000. Built in 1990, the building was designed by the firm Loebl Schlossman & Hackl, with Stephen T. Wright as the principal in charge of design. It has been honored with 8 awards, including winning the Best Structure Award from the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois in 1995. At the time of completion, Two Prudential was the world's tallest reinforced concrete building. Its distinctive shape features stacked chevron setbacks on the north and south sides, a pyramidal peak rotated 45°, and an 80-foot (24 m) spire. The building is attached to One Prudential Plaza (formerly called the Prudential Building).Northeast Asia Trade Tower | |
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Height | 305m |
Floors | 68 |
Year | 2010 |
City | Songdo |
<p>The Posco Tower-Songdo or Northeast Asia Trade Tower (Korean: ?????-??) is a skyscraper at Songdo International City, the world's most expensive private real estate project in the Incheon Free Economic Zone, South Korea. </p>The 305-metre (1,001 feet ) building is now South Korea's fourth tallest, and has 68 flooring. It surpassed the previous record-holder, Samsung Tower Palace 3 -- Tower G in Seoul, when it. Although completed in 2011, the completion of its interior was postponed due to financial complications during a recession.The construction was intended to be a landmark of the Songdo International Business District that was assembled on unused land along the waterfront near Incheon. It includes 19 floors of class A office space, South Korea's tallest observatory on a luxury resort, the 65th-floor residences, and retail shops. The column-free flooring include an office lobby at ground level with Vermont slate stone walls and French limestone flooring.
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