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CTBUH Journal Tall buildings: design, construction and operation | 2009 Issue III Trump International Tower & Hotel A Humanist Approach To Tropical High-rise Shaping the High-rise Framework Non-orthogonal high-rise buildings 40 years of the CTBUH: Chairman Reflections Tall Buildings and Embodied Energy 2009 Chicago Skyscraper Summer Tours Editor’s Message Editor The first, like the Trump Tower, opened its Zak Kostura, Arup doors long before it reached its current height. t: +1 212 896 3240 [email protected] The Blue Cross Blue Shield tower, completed to the 32nd floor in 1997, was designed and Associate Editors constructed with provisions allowing for a Robert Lau, Roosevelt University near-doubling of the tower’s height to 57 [email protected] stories at a later date. This impressive feat of Jan Klerks, CTBUH phased construction – along with that of the [email protected] Trump Tower – was reported on by Robert Lau Antony Wood, CTBUH [email protected] in Issue 3 of the 2008 CTBUH Journal. The © Arup second phase of BCBS is due to be complete Editoral Board Zak Kostura, Editor next year. Ahmad Abdelrazaq, Samsung Corporation Hojjat Adeli, Ohio State University In this issue, the Council jubilantly celebrates Mir Ali, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The second project, widely known as Aqua, is Richard W. Bukowski, Rolf Jensen & Associates, Inc the opening of the 92-story Trump an undulating 82-story mixed-use residential Mahjoub Elnimeiri, Illinois Institute of Technology International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, USA. skyscraper. Designed by Jeanne Gang and Gary C. Hart, Weidlinger Associates The structure was completed to great public Peter Irwin, RWDI Studio Gang Architects, Aqua again Tim Johnson, NBBJ fanfare on January 3, 2009, when a Sikorsky implemented flexible, modular formwork to Gary Lawrence, Arup S-61 helicopter delivered the final steel rapidly set out and cast each unique floor slab, Simon Lay, WSP Buildings Ltd. supports for the building’s 192-foot spire. Yet Sam Lee, Guangzhou Scientific Computing Consultants minimizing the lead time associated with the Tony McLaughlin, Buro Happold in a move then unprecedented in skyscraper novel and breathtaking form. Now Lester Partridge, Bassett Applied Research development, the 339-room hotel celebrated substantially complete, this building was Jason Pomeroy, Broadway Malyan its grand opening to the public a full 8 months Steve Watts, Davis Langdon LLP toured by the CTBUH late last year – an Peter Weismantle, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill prior to the spire’s high-altitude helicopter experience that was reported on in Issue 1 of Michael Willford, Arup delivery. the 2009 CTBUH Journal. Design & Layout This move, carefully planned for throughout Selection of The Windy City as the venue for Katharina Holzapfel the conception and design of the building, [email protected] this year’s CTBUH conference is well timed proves the viability of partial occupancy in given these recent achievements in tall Published by phased building construction. Modular building design and construction. If you will The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat fabrication and increasingly sophisticated be in attendance, I hope that this issue’s case © CTBUH 2009 construction techniques continue to enhance ISSN: 1946-1186 study of the Trump Tower, along with other the potential for partial occupancy prior to relevant papers and pieces in past releases of Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat substantial completion, providing a financial the Journal serve as useful technical guides for Illinois Institute of Technology boon to developers and shareholders who S. R. Crown Hall your tour of the cityscape. These projects 3360 South State Street eagerly await the opportunity to begin serve to underscore the importance of Chicago, IL 60616-3793 cashing in on their mammoth investment. chronicling and sharing knowledge and t: +1 312 909 0253 experience so that future tall building projects f: +1 312 567 3820 The successful implementation of partial worldwide can be informed by the impressive e: [email protected] occupancy at the Trump Tower is but one bit achievements of today’s modern building www.ctbuh.org of evidence that innovation in the skyscraper stock. typology is alive and well in the city that Copyright Copyright 2009 Council on Tall Buildings and Urban boasts its invention. On the northern edge of On behalf of the Council, I hope to see you in Habitat. All rights reserved. No part of this publication Millennium Park, one of Chicago’s vital civic Chicago in October. may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any centers, two further additions to the city’s means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from the publisher. celebrated skyline are helping to push the Best Regards, Image Copyright narrative of groundbreaking skyscraper design CTBUH Journal has endeavored to determine the and construction. copyright holders of all images. Those uncredited have been sourced from listed authors or from within CTBUH Print Zak Kostura This Journal is printed by Source4, Chicago. Front cover: Trump International Hotel & Tower, Chicago © Jan Klerks 2 | Editor's Message CTBUH Journal | 2009 Issue III Inside News and Events Features 04 Message from the Chairman 23 Letters 16 Case Study: Trump International Hotel & Tower ground level, further opens up an expansive promenade that steps down, like terraces on a David Scott Feedback and Comments hillside, until it meets the water. This lively "Born of a place with a history of great gathering place includes retail, pedestrian paths, and an extended riverwalk park system buildings, the tower contributes to an exciting (see Figure 2 on page 18). William F. Baker Paul James and ever-evolving architectural dialogue." ...remaking Paris Chicago, a city known worldwide for its tall buildings, welcomed a new supertall tower to its I think we’ve all begun to realize the 05 CTBUH News and Events 50 Tall Buildings in Numbers skyline this year. Bookended by the 442-meter (1,450-foot) Sears Tower to the south and the importance of cities again. You see it in Bogota, in 344-meter (1,128-foot) John Hancock Center to the north, the 415-meter (1,362-foot) Trump New“ York – this new interest in the compact, Richard F. Tomlinson Andrew Weiss International Hotel and Tower is the tallest residential, and the largest concrete, building in the United States. It is also the tallest building project in North America since the completion of sustainable city. Authors the Sears Tower in 1974, and one of the largest buildings to be partially open to the public 1William F. Baker, Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP President Nicolas Sarkozy” of France has called for a post-Kyoto urban plan for while under construction. This last distinction, although not as glamorous as the rest, is one of Antony Wood, Tall Buildings and Embodied William F. Baker is the Structural and Civil Engineering Paris. He convened a meeting of prominent architects, which included Mr. Partner for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Throughout his the most innovative stories behind Trump Tower. It represents a feat of planning, mixed-use distinguished career, Bill has dedicated himself to Rogers, to come up with a new blueprint for Paris. Quote from Richard Rogers programming, and construction that required a remarkable degree of collaboration between structural innovation- most notably in the design of tall from the article ‘Remaking Paris’, New York Times Magazine, June 14. buildings within the urban landscape. In addition to the Trump Organization, architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), construction working at SOM, Bill’s expertise is frequently solicited by manager Bovis Lend Lease, and the City of Chicago. CTBUH Executive Director Energy institutions of higher learning, as well as numerous professional organizations. Bill is the 2008 recipient of the Fazlur Rahman Khan medal from CTBUH and the 2009 In addition to creating a one-acre landscaped recipient and first American to receive the Fritz Leonhardt riverwalk, this promenade establishes a Prize. Collaboration Between Client, Architect, and Chicago market had a greater need for pedestrian link between North Michigan 2Paul James, Senior Vice President, Bovis Lend Lease City centrally located residential and high-end Paul James, with over 37 years of construction expertise, hotel space, the plans were again revised and Avenue (the city’s “Gold Coast” shopping has been an integral member of the Bovis Lend Lease Trump Tower rises from the heart of the city, at district) and State Street (a key corridor that Chicago office since 1989. Prior to coming to Bovis Lend a point where the Chicago River curves gently the project re-emerged as a slender, 92-story Lease, Paul spent 17 years with James McHugh tower that would combine luxury leads to the Chicago Loop). On the northern Construction Co. As Senior Vice President and Director of to the southwest. Its 401 N. Wabash address is edge of the tower, at a site formerly used as a Technical Services, Paul manages a team of estimators, the former site of the low-rise Chicago condominiums with a world-class hotel, value engineers, and schedulers who provide design riverfront retail, and amenities. With the City of loading dock, the plan creates a lushly phase services including estimating and budget control, Sun-Times building. When the Trump landscaped, walkable link between Wabash 05 What’s on the Web 60 Exhibit Review development of procurement criteria, schedules, and Chicago’s input and support, the Trump Organization purchased the land in 2001, they constructability and logistics planning. Organization and SOM approached the project Avenue to the west and the Wrigley Building saw the waterfront as a natural location for a arcade to the east (see Figure 3 on page 18). A 1Richard F. Tomlinson II, Partner, Skidmore, Owings & tall building that would offer 360-degree city with the flexibility necessary to create a Merrill LLP building that would thrive in the city, in both bus lane and drop-off were also planned for Richard F.