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Two Prudential Plaza

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Status
  
Complete

Completed
  
1990

Top floor
  
820 ft (250 m)

Floors
  
64

Contractor
  
Turner Construction

Architect
  
Stephen T. Wright

Type
  
Mixed Use

Architectural
  
995 ft (303 m)

Height
  
250 m, 303 m to tip

Opened
  
1990

Construction started
  
1988

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Location
  
180 N. Stetson Av. Chicago, Illinois United States

Similar
  
The Franklin Center, Aon Center, One Prudential Plaza, Wells Fargo Plaza, Bank of America Plaza

Two Prudential Plaza is a 64-story skyscraper that was built in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois, United States in 1990. At 995 feet (303 m) tall, it is currently the sixth-tallest building in Chicago and the seventeenth tallest in the United States, being only 5 feet from 1000 feet. The building is also currently the tallest building in the world that is under 1000 feet tall. The building was designed by the firm Loebl, Schlossman & Hackl, with Stephen T. Wright as the principal in charge of design. It has been honored with 8 awards, including winning the Best Structure Award from the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois in 1995.

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Map of Two Prudential Plaza, 180 N Stetson Ave, Chicago, IL 60601, USA

At the time of completion Two Prudential was the world's tallest reinforced concrete building. Its distinctive shape features stacked chevron setbacks on the north and south sides, a pyramidal peak rotated 45°, and an 80-foot (24 m) spire.

The building is attached to One Prudential Plaza (formerly known as the Prudential Building). Without its spire, the building's height is still slightly greater than that of One Prudential Plaza's pinnacle.

Two Prudential Plaza, along with its sister property One Prudential Plaza, was sold in May 2006 for $470 million to BentleyForbes, a Los Angeles-based real estate investment firm run by Carl Frederick Wehba and his son Carl Frederick Wehba II.

Tenants

The Consulate-General of Canada in Chicago is located in Suite 2400.

The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office of the Republic of China is on the 57th and 58th floors of the building.

CBS Radio occupies the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th floors, including WBBM, WBBM-FM, WJMK-FM, WXRT, WUSN, WSCR and WCFS

The building and the plaza appear in the 1994 film Richie Rich as Rich Industries Inc.

References

Two Prudential Plaza Wikipedia