American developer Related Midwest has resumed construction on the 400 Lake Shore skyscraper in Chicago on a site that has experienced more than a decade's worth of revisions and delays.
Construction teams in Chicago have begun work on the foundation for the 72-storey skyscraper designed by SOM.
Images show workers filling the giant foundation hole that has been left at the site alongside the Chicago River on Lake Michigan for nearly twenty years.
Construction has commenced on a pair of SOM-designed skyscrapers at the ill-fated site of the Chicago Spire
The site was originally slated to hold The Spire, a mega-tall skyscraper designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava that was ultimately cancelled due to the financial and logistical problems. The original plan for the structure would have made it the tallest building in the world at the time, if completed. In 2016, after years of legal disputes, the plan was finally scrapped, and Related Midwest, a creditor on the original project, commissioned Chicago-based SOM to completely redesign the site. In 2020, the developer announced that the height of the proposed towers had been reduced.
The result was a pair of skyscrapers, the tallest having 76 storeys ? a design approved by the local planning commission.
Construction teams began pumping concrete into the hole to serve as a foundation for the 76-storey skyscraper
Currently, construction is underway on the taller of the two towers, the northern one, with massive amounts o...