330 North Wabash
- Architect
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Year
- 1973
- Style
- International Style
- City
- Chicago, IL
- Collection
- mies in chicago
330 North Wabash, known today as AMA Plaza and originally as IBM Plaza, was the last building Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed in Chicago before his death in 1969, developed with C. F. Murphy as associate architect. IBM first contacted Mies in 1966; construction began in 1969, and the 695-foot, 52-story tower was dedicated on September 20, 1972, becoming the technology company's Chicago headquarters.
the building
Steel-and-glass curtain wall. The tower's exterior is Mies's signature International Style curtain wall of steel and glass, the final built expression of the vocabulary he had spent his Chicago career refining.
From offices to hotel. IBM occupied the building fully for two decades after 1975, then downsized in the mid-1990s and sold the tower in 1996. Since 2013, floors two through thirteen have operated as the Langham, Chicago hotel, while the upper floors remain offices.
the style
Mies designed the tower in the International Style, the steel-and-glass vocabulary he had brought to Chicago decades earlier and carried here to its final built statement in the city before his death in 1969.
More on International Stylethe architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe worked with C. F. Murphy as associate architect on 330 North Wabash, the last building he designed in Chicago before he died in 1969.
More on Ludwig Mies van der Rohesignificance
330 North Wabash is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is designated a Chicago Landmark.
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