150 North Riverside Chicago

150 North Riverside Chicago

150 North Riverside Chicago


150 North Riverside is one of Chicago’s most impressive new skyscrapers situated alongside the Chicago River.  The highrise skyscraper building is is 53 stories tall with a height of 747 feet to the roof.  This large building only encompasses an impressive twenty-five percent of the lot. Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.  The building features a stunningly beautiful LED art display designed by Yuge Zhou, Director and Curator of 150 Media Stream

The large building’s Architect, Chicago based Goettsch Partners, www.gpchicago.com utilized an ingenious cantilever design to maximize the amount of office space above the small two-acre lot along side the high demand west bank Chicago river real estate. At the ENR Midwest 2017 Best Projects Awards ceremony Goettsch Partners’ high rise project was presented with multiple awards including the top honor “Project of the Year award”. The masterpiece was also recognized as Best Project in the Office/Retail/Mixed-Use category.

Chicago, Illinois & Bethesda, Maryland based Clark Construction www.clarkconstruction.com completed work on the superstructure in 2017 and won a “Build America Award” for building this 54-story office tower with 1.2 million square feet of leasable space cantilevering off a concrete core enclosed in a curtainwall façade.

The developer for 150 N Riverside was Chicago, IL based John O’Donnell, Riverside Investment and Development Company.  150 North Riverside boasts 1.2 million square foot ofClass A+ office development located in the dynamic West Loop submarket. Located at the confluence of the three branches of the Chicago River, the Project offers a premiere location, convenient access to all major transportation systems, premium view corridors, large open floor plates and lobbies, and state-of-the-art building technology. Situated in between Randolph and Lake St  this transit oriented site is steps away from commuter and CTA rail lines. On-site amenities include a conference center, board rooms, a luxury restaurant, a 6,000 Square Foot fitness center as well as 100 valet and reserved parking stalls. The Project delivers an unprecedented 1.5 acre landscaped public park at the base of the building as well as 360 feet of Riverwalk frontage. The modern architectural style utilizes a steel structure, concrete core construction, high performance floor to ceiling glass, 9’-6”clear ceiling height, and high end stone elements at the pedestrian level and lobbies. The iconic design has achieved LEED Gold pre-certification and features the most technologically advanced mechanical and building systems in the market.

Goettsch Partners Chicago Architects

Goettsch Partners Chicago Architects


The structural engineer was Seattle, Washington based Magnusson Klemencic Associates.  The class A, 150 North Riverside Chicago office tower on an extremely challenging site adjacent to the Chicago River and active Amtrak rail lines. 

In response to the multiple site challenges, the building features an innovative, tapered superstructure design to create a footprint equal to just 25% of the tower’s floor area.  Reducing the sway in a tall building, the project architects placed very heavy objects to accommodate the building accelerations, managed with 12 liquid mass dampers (giant tanks hidden in the upper floors of the building which holds 160,000 gallons of water. These special tanks of liquid help to dramatically dampen and reduce the building’s sway.)  The project includes a number of design innovations and engineering “firsts,”  including the development of a thin concrete central building core structural system “spine” that hold the elevator core and transfer the load from the upper floors into the foundation – which was drilled 110 feet below grade level into 5′ deep of Chicago’s bedrock to provide a stable foundation. The building uses the largest rolled steel sections in the world, design of a high-capacity primary foundation system using half as many support pilings, and many more amazing engineering feats.  

Building Design Awards include: 2016 Jurors’ Favorite/Most Innovative Structure, Excellence in Structural Engineering, Structural Engineers Association of Illinois, 2017 Building Team Award, Platinum Award, Building Design + Construction, 2017 New Construction Chicago Over $55 Million Finalist, Chicago Building Congress Merit Awards. Learn additional details about the 150 North Riverside’s Chicago architecture & building on the Chicago Architecture Center website.

MILLER+MILLER is a Chicago architectural photographer who specializes in High-rise Skyscraper Buildings Photography and much more.

John ODonnell Chicago Developer

John ODonnell Chicago Developer


Magnusson Klemencic Associates Structural Engineer

Magnusson Klemencic Associates Structural Engineer


Goettsch Partners Chicago Architect

Goettsch Partners Chicago Architect


Clark Construction Company Chicago Builder

Clark Construction Company Chicago Builder



Harold Washington Social Security Government Building Renovation

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Chicago Harold Washington Social Security Building Renovation

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Government Federal city building renovation photos

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Today’s post features sample architectural exterior building photos of The Harold Washington Social Security Government Building Renovation in Chicago. Our client, an architectural commercial construction company, requested building photography at multiple project locations of commercial buildings around Chicago and the suburbs showcasing past projects for the client’s marketing and construction portfolio of images for business.

The Harold Washington Social Security Center is located in the West Loop of Chicago. The headquarters for SSA’s Chicago regional office was built in 1975. The government building recently underwent a renovation. The 10-story building is made of composite steel, a reinforced concrete structural frame clad in pre-cast concrete panels, and a glass and spandrel curtain wall. The construction team in charge of the concrete building with new modern glass renovation Chicago construction project are Jacobs Ryan Associates Landscape Architects, Bergland Construction, and Harmon Inc.

The modernized, new Harold Washington Social Security Government Building occupies one city block of Chicago’s West Loop. City of Chicago Harold Washington Social Security Government building features public art at the building’s entrance. A giant, 101-foot-tall, outdoor steel sculpture baseball bat named Batcolumn (or Bat Column) by artist Claes Oldenburg.

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Batcolumn Chicago Sculpture Art by Artist Claes Oldenburg Bat Column

Chicago’s skyscrapers, chimney stacks, neoclassical columns, steel bridge cross-bracing and construction cranes inspired the design of Claes Oldenburg’s heroic- scaled, lattice-shell baseball bat. On observing Chicago’s flat terrain, the Swedish-born artist once commented, “the real art here is architecture, or anything that really stands up.” Oldenburg’s Batcolumn demonstrates the artist’s fascination with scale and the changes in the significance of everyday objects when they are enlarged to monumental proportions. Like all of Oldenburg’s monuments, Batcolumn combines a humorous and irreverent attitude toward popular objects with meticulous construction details and handling of scale and proportion. It can alternately be seen as a reference to historical monumental columns, a salute to the American institution of baseball or a tribute to the steel industry.  Source, The Chicago Public Art Guide

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Chicago government architect buildings photography

The Harold Washington Social Security Administration Center in Chicago is an LEED Federal Government Project. “The renovation features rooftop solar panels, energy-efficient lighting and water features, and new heating and cooling systems, earned LEED Gold certification back in July. The center currently operates with a 20 percent reduction in energy use and a 2-million-gallon reduction in water use yearly.” Source, everblue

Contact Chicago Architectural Photographers Miller + Miller Architectural Photography about exterior photography for architect pictures of social, government, security, municipality, libraries, federal, state county, city, court house, civic, township, village, administration, buildings and facilities new construction, expansion, or building renovation property marketing images and photos. Visit our Commercial Architectural Photography Portfolio and About Us sections for more about our services and additional photo examples.  We are photographers who travel the Midwest and Nationwide, so contact us about government or commercial building photography in any city and at any location. 

Our photography company are photographers of buildings in Illinois, Chicago, St. Louis, Springfield, Peoria, Champaign, Decatur, & Rockford. Covering property photography in Wisconsin, Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay and Northern WI.  Also available in Minnesota MN Minneapolis Saint Paul, the Twin Cities, Duluth, Rochester, Indiana, Indianapolis, Merrillville, Crown Point, South Bend, Valparaiso, Elkhart, Fort Wayne, Muncie, Lafayette, Terre Haute, Bloomington, and Evansville. In Iowa, Miller + Miller has photographed exterior photos and buildings in the Quad Cities, Davenport, Bettendorf, Rock Island, Moline, Des Moines, Iowa City, Dubuque, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids and Sioux City IA.  Commercial photographer serving Michigan cities of Detroit, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor, and Traverse City MI.  Also covering Missouri, Nebraska, Omaha, Lincoln NE, Arkansas, Little Rock, Kentucky, Louisville KY, Ohio, Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, Toledo, and Cleveland.  International photography shoots flying to Canadian cities or driving into Canada to Toronto or Winnipeg is always an option.  And many more locations!  Consider Miller + Miller as your architectural photographer of choice for any Midwest or Nationwide buildings photography assignment.  


Hospital Renovation Modernization Construction Advocate Good Shepherd Barrington Photos

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Our Hospital Renovation Modernization Project Advocate Good Shepard Barrington photos shoot took place last Fall. The exterior architectural photography and renovation modernized hospital building property photos all occurred outside with pictures focusing on Barrington’s Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital’s exterior and new construction glass modern entryway. This renovated hospital property is 1 building out of 15 locations we photographed for our Chicago area Construction Company client. The client hired Miller + Miller Architectural Photography for a multi-project photo assignment, assigning us to capture a set of exterior architectural building photography and photographs of their finest 2017 commercial construction projects.  A variety of types of buildings from medical healthcare hospitals photos, to higher education new construction, and hotels & hospitality.   The client’s set of projects are large newly constructed buildings and skyscrapers within Chicago.  A mix of building construction architectural styles with our photography focusing in on both commercial new construction and renovations around Chicago.

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According to the Chicago Tribune story and Northwest Herald article the $247M, 4-year modernization building project’s construction started in 2013 and completed in September 2017.  Barrington’s Good Shepherd Hospital first opened in 1979 and now serves patients in Cook, Lake and McHenry counties. The Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital renovation project added 230,000 square feet.  The healthcare building construction project included an architect’s reno plan, a hospital design, construction and renovation of 150,000 existing square feet.

The photography shoot had a primary focus on photographs of the new designed entrance and the highlight of the hospital renovation modernization construction at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington.  The new modern entrance and new glass exterior building facade is highly visible upon first arriving at the hospital’s main entrance drive.  The main entrance doors features new floor-to-ceiling windows, which overlooks a landscaped garden.  This new all glass facade opens up and modernizes the old main entrance space, allowing an abundance of natural light to enter into the building. Both the new entryway and addition of a serpentine glass wall construction seamlessly flows visitors into the new Paul and Barbara Hills Center for Advanced Care wing.  This modern glass addition dramatically modernizes the building’s main elevation on the Southwest side of the healthcare facility. The building’s glass entry, glass floor to ceiling southwest facade, and glass serpentine wall of the property by Harmon Construction Inc.Harmoninc.com construction company.

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The commercial building company in charge with construction of the Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital is Mortenson who says… the renovation included major improvements to the hospital’s building. 14 new and renovated operating rooms and four new rooms for cardiac catheterization, electrophysiology, and interventional radiology. All of the hospital’s 176 inpatient rooms now are private. In addition, the renovation and modernization hospital project added private pre- and post-op patient rooms, and an expanded area and amenities for family waiting. Each private hospital room comes with large windows.

Other renovation details include a new green roof by the on the patient care pavilion allows for vegetation and provides energy-conserving insulation and can absorb rainwater. Respite areas also are located throughout the hospital, such as outdoor gardens. Additionally, new and modernized areas within the healthcare facility include consult space for patients with chronic illness, a centralized testing area, a new breast care center with expanded capacity, new physical rehabilitation and cardio-pulmonary rehabilitation departments, and an expanded endoscopy area. The modernization improves energy efficiency and includes green roofs to provide energy-conserving insulation and to absorb rainwater.

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The location of the facility Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital is located at 450 West Highway 22, Barrington, Illinois 60010. An Integrated Lean Project Delivery (lean IPD) approach was used by the team who rebuilt Advocate Good Shepard Barrington hospital led by Minneapolis based builders Mortenson Construction Real Estate Development CompanyMortenson.com and the Firm HOK and Mortenson Construction combining Design, Architecture, Engineering and Planning.  The Advocate Health Care Health System is headquartered in Downers Grove, IL.


Chicago-based photographer team of Miller + Miller Architectural Photography specializes in architectural, exteriors, interiors, renovations, hotels, hospitality development, buildings, residential, commercial construction, and more with architects, construction, architecture, healthcare clients and more hiring us to capture portfolio pictures of buildings for marketing and advertising needs. We have the luxury of photographing numerous of the finest architecturally built, skyscrapers, hotels, resorts, and high-rise buildings in Chicago and Nationwide. Serving photo clients since 2006, contact us, email or call our architectural photography company team to discuss and quote your photo projects.


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