US studio Pelli Clarke & Partners has completed the 57-storey Salesforce Tower along the Chicago River, marking the final stage of the city's Wolf Point development.
The 852-foot-tall (259 metres) office tower joins two residential towers and 2.3 acres of public park space across the 4-acre Wolf Point development, which sits directly at the intersection of the North, South and Eastern branches of the Chicago River.
Pelli Clarke & Partners has completed a Salesforce tower in Chicago
Formally home to the "city's first commercial settlements" and then an "underutilized" parking lot, the Wolf Point project has taken 14 years to complete, masterplanned by Pelli Clarke & Partners and developed by Hines.
"It has been a privilege to shape the transformation of Wolf Point and contribute to the design of Chicago's iconic skyline for nearly 15 years," said Pelli Clarke & Partners partner Darin Cook. It marks the final phase of the city's Wolf Point
"We have long been inspired by Chicago's rich architectural tradition and history of innovation," he continued.
"In creating Salesforce Tower, we designed a tower that reaches boldly skyward, is imbued with lightness, and takes a sculptural form."
The 1.2 million square foot (111, 483 square metres) skyscraper is composed of several glass-clad volumes of ascending height, sandwiched together to create a central point.
It joins a park and two residential towers on the same sit...