City Hyde Park

Chicago, IL

City Hyde Park

This LEED Silver development’s 12-story residential tower atop a two-level retail podium encompasses a whole city block. Amenities include a gym, landscaped gardens, a grocery store, and a below-grade, two-level garage that accommodates 365 vehicles. MKA designed the reversing exterior panels, which define the tower’s perimeter, to shorten slab spans and incorporate 40-foot column spacing and slabs eight inches thick, with no post-tensioning. The operable Juliette balconies covering the tower’s east side are thermally isolated to keep hot or cold weather elements outside. The balconies also support and stiffen one another from floor to floor as the vertical panel spirals clockwise. On the tower’s west side, shaded cantilevered balconies diffuse the sun’s heat.