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Three First National Plaza

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Completed
  
1981

Roof
  
767 ft (234 m)

Height
  
234 m

Opened
  
1981

Opening
  
1981

Floor count
  
57

Floors
  
57

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Location
  
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois

Floor area
  
1,439,369 sq ft (133,721.8 m)

Architecture firm
  
Skid, Owings & Merrill

Similar
  
Grant Thornton Tower, Chase Tower, Olympia Centre, 181 West Madison Street, The Franklin Center

Three First National Plaza is a 57-story office tower in Chicago located at 70 West Madison Street. Completed in 1981, the building is one of the tallest in Chicago at 767 feet (234 m). The 1,439,369-square-foot (133,721.8 m2) building was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in a sawtooth shape to minimize obstructions it might cause to nearby buildings. The design also allows for thirteen corner offices on lower floors and nine corner offices in the upper regions. The exterior façade is clad in Carnelian granite and features 10-foot-wide bay windows (3.0 m) suggestive of traditional Chicago school architecture.

Map of Three First National Plaza, Chicago, IL 60602, USA

Three First National Plaza's nine-story atrium used to contain "Large Internal-External Upright Form", a sculpture by Henry Moore. The sculpture was removed and sold in 2016 following a remodel of the lobby. The building features pedway access, and was once connected to Chase Tower by a second-story skywalk.

References

Three First National Plaza Wikipedia