Thread: Office towers: Residential lofts of the future?
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Old Posted Feb 1, 2013, 9:47 PM
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it's already been done. many times.

there are a lot of older art deco/neo-classical/beaux arts office towers from the 1st half of the 20th century that have been converted into residential and/or hotel buildings here in chicago .

there have also been a couple of modernist boxes that have had residential/hotel components added - Mies van der Rohe's IBM plaza (hotel added to floors 2-13), Minuro Yamisaki's montgomery ward headquarters (full residential conversion), and mid-continetal plaza (top 15 floors converted to residential) come immediately to mind.
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