Eight-Seventy-Five North Michigan Avenue is one of Chicago’s most recognizable Modernist landmarks. Formerly known as the John Hancock Center, the 100-story mixed-use skyscraper, with condominiums on floors 44–92, was designed by the SOM team of Bruce Graham and Fazlur Rahman Khan. Completed in 1969, its tapering elevations are distinguished by steel cross bracing. Given the eminent architectural lineage and the posh location, you might expect its upper-floor apartments to be fabulous. Alas, they usually are not.
One elegant exception is an 1,800-square-foot, south-facing unit on the 84th floor, recently renovated by Vladimir Radutny Architects. This project was a good fit for Radutny, a 2020 Design Vanguard. Well versed in high Modernism, he teaches in the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, whose campus was designed by Mies van der Rohe, and he and his family live in a Mies tower just a few blocks from the jobsite.
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