Status Complete Completed 1982 Roof 599 ft (183 m) Floors 44 Construction started 1981 | Type Office Opening 1982 Height 183 m Opened 1982 | |
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Location 200 West Madison Street, Chicago, Illinois, United States Architecture firm Skid, Owings & Merrill Similar Heller International Building, 181 West Madison Street, Grant Thornton Tower, The Grant, The Heritage at Millenniu | ||
Madison Plaza is a skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. The building rises 599 feet (182 m) in the Chicago Loop. It contains 45 floors, and was completed in 1982. Madison Plaza currently stands as the 36th-tallest building in the city. The architectural firm who designed the building was Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the same firm who designed Chicago's Willis Tower and John Hancock Center and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
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Map of Madison Plaza, Chicago, IL 60606, USA
Madison Plaza was designed with a "sawtooth edge", and incorporates six corners onto the southeast face of the building. Thus, the building has nine corner offices on most of its floors. Madison Plaza was originally proposed to have a twin tower located on the lot situated south of the tower. However, plans for a second tower were ultimately abandoned. Six years later, in 1988, the Miglin-Beitler Skyneedle was proposed for construction on the same lot, adjacent to Madison Plaza. Plans called for 125-story tower that was to rise 2,000 ft (610 m). However, that plan was also eventually cancelled. The lot is now the site of a parking garage.
Madison Plaza is the location of "Dawn Shadows", a famous black metal sculpture created by Louise Berliawsky Nevelson. The sculpture was brought to the plaza in 1983.
>>NOTE: Madison Plaza is also a plaza in New York, at the corner of Madison and Pearl, near Chatham Square. http://www.lowermanhattan.info/construction/project_updates/james_madison_plaza_reconstruction_54332.aspx
Tenants
United Airlines previously maintained a ticketing office in this building.