Type Commercial offices Completed 1983 Height 149 m Opened 1983 Architect William Pedersen | Construction started 1979 Roof 149 m (489 ft) Floors 36 Architectural style Postmodern Architecture | |
 | ||
Location 333 Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois Management Hines Interests Limited Partnership Owner Hines Interests Limited Partnership Similar Grant Thornton Tower, 333 North Michigan, Pittsfield Building, Roanoke Building, Inland Steel Building | ||
333 West Wacker Drive is a highrise office building in Chicago, Illinois. On the side facing the Chicago River, the building features a curved green glass façade, while on the other side the building adheres to the usual rectangular street grid. The architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates who designed 333 also designed the high-rise buildings 225 W Wacker to the east, and 191 N Wacker Drive to the south.
Contents
Map of 333 Wacker Drive, 333 W Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60606, USA
The building marks the division between North Wacker Drive and West Wacker Drive as the street makes a 90 degree turn. Based on the Chicago grid system for street numbers, if the building had been given an address on North Wacker, the street number would have been an odd number between 200 and 300.
333 Wacker Drive was featured in the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off as the building containing Ferris Bueller's father's offices, and was voted "Favorite Building" by the readers of The Chicago Tribune in 1995.