Millennium Centre

The Millennium Centre is a Contemporary skyscraper designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz and built between 2001 and 2003 in Chicago, IL.

Its precise street address is 33 West Ontario Street, Chicago, IL. You can also find it on the map here.

When details were released about the proposed structure for the Millenium Center in September of 2000, it took only 2 days to sell 95% of the 341 proposed residential units. This was even before the city of Chicago had granted approval for the building's construction .

Solomon Cordwell Buenz was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design.

Solomon Cordwell Buenz was in charge of the architectural design, however, architecture is a complex discipline, which usually involves many professionals from different fields, without whom this building would have not been possible. We will surely be leaving out a lot of names here, but at the very least we know that there was one other part involved, that was American Invsco contractor as the Main Developer.

The Millennium Centre can be categorized as a Contemporary building.

That being said, and even thought being a contemporary building, probably taking advantage of modern materials, construction techniques, and technology, the design of the Millennium Centre is inspired by the postmodernism style.

The Millennium Centre uses a frame structure made of reinforced concrete columns and beams.

A frame structure uses a combination of beams and columns to sustain the building's weight. The walls in this case are non-load bearing, which allows for more flexibility when distributing the interior spaces.

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features a rich combination of details that protrude or are embedded in the facade's plane, some more than other, but all contributing to highlighting the vertically of the building in a way that could to some degree remind of art-deco.

The modular facade offers a sober image thanks to the balanced combination of concrete and glass.