Two Prudential Plaza
Chicago, USA

HEIGHT: 303m/995 feet
FLOORS: 64 floors
COMPLETION: 1990
ARCHITECT: Loebl, Schlossman & Hackl

The Prudential Plaza redevelopment project sparked new vitality for the immediate area with renovation of the existing 41-story One Prudential Plaza; construction of a new 64-story, 1.2 million square foot Two Prudential Plaza; design of a one-acre outdoor plaza; and a new five-level, underground parking garage. The two buildings share a common lobby and matching architectural elements at the entrance level. Two Prudential Plaza, the tallest reinforced concrete building in North America, has been honored with eight awards.

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7.5/10

It looks good from some angles only..but i feel its still rather chunky. Being next to the Aon Center just doesnt help its spire break into the skyline well.

Another Chicagoan stunner - über-nice & good ;)

9

tays

Very good, nice spire, just wish that it wasn't blocked out by Aon Center.

8/10

i have nothing against it:D

i love it . . .very Philadelphia-ish . . 7/10:D

Originally posted by caledon1981
i love it . . .very Philadelphia-ish . . 7/10:D Yes, very Liberty Plaza in Philly.

Nice and sheer with plenty of height.

9

Chicago has so many great towers!

9.5/10

A nice, bright tower-but nice bright towers need space to catch the light, and this one is overshadowed a bit.

8/10

Yeah, It is. I like the height on it. Very awsome appearance. 8/10

Originally posted by caledon1981
i love it . . .very Philadelphia-ish . . 7/10:D

I second that notion.

Anyway, I rated 2 Pru over on WSF before it shut down. And I gave it something like a 8.5/10, so that's what it'll get now.

9/10. I love this building. I was going to make a Philideplhia comment but someone beat me to it.

Wow! I give it a 10/10!

I used to work in this building. It has a nice plaza at it's foot. The interior is so-so.

9/10 Nice Top

I love it! 10/10 :)

I like it. The design makes sense, it is both axial and symetrical, depending upon your perspective. It is one of the few glassy towers to come during this time that actually had some "depth" to its facade. I also appreciate its very prominent status in Chicago's skyline, even though it is nowhere near being the tallest.


8.0/10

One of Chicago's finest modern towers. 8.5/10

A terrific well-pronounced glass punctuation in the Chicago skyline! 8.

My favourite tower in Chicago , so I gave it a 10 !!

It should have been built on another location imo , so it would look much nicer !

I say if you are that close to getting a building to 1000ft you might as well add 5ft more.

8.5/10

7.5/10 - Nice, sleek facade, with enough glass to really dance with the light, and I like the contrasting strips racing up centers of the sides. This won major points.
I appreciate the attempt to move beyond the box, but both roof and setbacks could have been done better - they don't add to the tower's sense of height as much as they could.
I think they could have used some setbacks further down to make the tower slimmer, and they could have done something with the roof to make it look slimmer as well...They also could have put setbacks on all four sides...

yes the spire is short but the rest of the design for this Chi-town scraper is excellent..who wouldn't want this building in their skyline..??..a pleasing building to look at from the setbacks to the top....9/10

It´s just perfect, but the spire is too short 9.5/10

9.5/10

very very very beautiful!!!

10/10

10 ! My fav in Chicago, and it would get a 11 if it wasn't built next to Aon :)

This building looks alright. However I like other spired building better such as 1 Liberty Place and the Key Tower. It appears a lot shorter than 995 feet. Maybe, it's just that it's dwarfed by the Aon building. Could have looked better if built in an other location.

7/10

I agree. If it stood alone it would look alot better. But it still looks very nice!:D

I give it a 10!

A very bright Tower
9/10

9.5


That first pic is especially good.

I for once really like its location. Along with One Pru and Aon, these three form a really nice cluster! 9/10!!

This one is good!Only the spire could have been bigger.
9.0/10

10

One of the most beautiful skyscrapers in the world... built right across the street from one of the the ugliest

It DOES look very much like the Liberty buildings in Philly... which is a good thing... I can't get enough of that style!

The spire could be a bit bigger...

9/10. Awesome tower. Very nice top!.

Nice lines, interesting and balanced. An apt design.

That irregular triangular-setback really gives a great lightning-effect at night.....This building is belong to Chicago....truely Chicago...8.5/10

Cool scraper :) But I don't like how the glass blends in with the rest of the facade.. a little weird I'll say... But it sure does look good at night!

8/10

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http://www.cyburbia.org/gallery/data/6080/1373elaon.jpg

I like how the cone is terraced and usable 8.5/10

10/10.

Who says skyscrapers has to be bizzare to be beautiful?

10/10 now

Much better in person. Some of my pics:
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid67/p62da9b1573fc8af996c30371c4c386ca/fbdb25a8.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid67/p34d97541caed7a1c5d5cb776a138d9f6/fbdb25c9.jpg
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this one is so cool, 10

my favorite postmodern skyscraper!!! it's like the ultimate classic, one of the best in chicago.

10

9.5/10

One of the greatest skyscrapers in Chicago. I love, I just wish they would add five more feet.

BTW- I like this pic. http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid67/p62da9b1573fc8af996c30371c4c386ca/fbdb25a8.jpg

One of my favourites in Chicago, 9/10

wow 8/10. Chicago's hidden gem?;)

I love the way this building looks. To bad they built it next to the AON center. Maybe if it was a little taller it would stand out more. 9.5/10


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9.5/10
I like the spire and top of this tower, which remind me a bit of a modern Chrysler building. I like the shape of this tower, which makes it far more exciting than a plain box. It reminds me a bit of a slimmer One Liberty place.
:)

10/10
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I don't understand how Amoco ruins the building.

5.5/10 ! :)

This is a beauty
Elegant and decent!

9.5/10

I like this photo

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7.5/10

It is not much my type.

10/10

9/10
Wonderful design!
Very beautiful especially at night.

8.5/10

8.5/10 Looks similar to Liberty Place in Philadelphia, but I like the solid blue on them better. It would have been a lot more visible if they hadn't put it right next to Aon.

don´t like it , is boring and simple 3/10

9.5/10

Nice and sharp and glassy :D

8.5/10

10/10
Simply an amazing structure. It is one of my favority chicago skyscrapers. I only wished it was 75 or 85 floors high instead of 41.

8.5/10

I usually dont rate a building much on its actual height, but I would give this guy a 9.5 or 10 if it was only 30 or 40 meters higher. Nice elegant building, I really like the facade, the shape and the spire. Would be nice if it was even close to the height of the Aon center (what a combo that would be), but maybe I shouldnt be so harsh since that was an economics design? Oh well, I will be.

I hate this building
Very unnatural looking, very awkward
The way it lights up at night is also dreadful

The worse supertall (well almost supertall) in the world in my opinion

My namesake, Liberty Two in Philadelphia, reminds me a lot of this building, but LIberty Two pulls it off much better, it has teh same design, but more natural curves and setbacks, plus the spire is reduced and remains just a light beacon

3/10 if for nothing else the height

7/10

My 2nd favorite building of all time. 10/10. :)

Nice-ish but derivative (it looks too much like that Philadelphia tower from 1987) 7/10

Truly remarkable!! 9/10

nothing very spectacular, but very nice! 7.5

A fascinating design - the crown and setbacks are superb.
Slightly less interesting from some angles, but overall I think it's wonderful. 9/10

9.5

Hot!

Overshadowed? I don't think so..... nothing could unless u threw a huge tarp over this beauty. Magnificent and modern!

8/10

4.5/10. Decent clone of the Liberty Towers, but low points for hiding behind Aon Center.

^ that's pretty ignorant IMO- we're not ranking locations here but the actual skyscrapers themselves

Nice tower 9/10

This look very representative of the tipical american downtown, but this tower is a bit especial. 7,5/10

6/10 - I liked only night look

8.5/10

I THINK ITS GREAT

9/10

Not bad

8/10

Very impressive! 10/10

Impressive design, 8/10

8/10.

Nice shape but I dislike the facade and it's too chunkey, 7/10

9/10

I like . 9/10

The perfect aid to the Aon Center, if not better! A 8/10 from me.

I think this tower is what the Post-Modern Era can show... 9.5/10

9 for being awesome and .5 as consolation gift for being overshadowed :)

I love it. Its near identical to Liberty plaza but not quite as good. 9/10

Somehow it looks pretentious to me.
As if it was in a ridiculous attempt to look taller than Aon.
Well, it's still quite tall, and looks not too bad from some angles.
5.

not my fav, but still looks rather ok from certain angles. Looks great at night. 8/10

10/10 Yeah it's a Murphy/Jahn knockoff, but it's better than any original!

7.5/10

7/10

Nice tower, 8.5 reminds me to the Liberty Plaza in Philly.

10/10

8/10

The staggered triagular design has been done too much now. 6.5/10.

9/10

Really nice scraper, but not the best in Chicago ;) 8/10

8.5/10

8/10. The facade is a little bit overdone.

7/10

It has a great shape with great colour. This is modernism at its best. 9.5/10.

7.5

The glasses of the facade are wonderful! 9/10

9/10. Very sleek tower.

nice one!!
9.5

9/10. Magnificant tower. The horizontal elements of the facade could have been better I think but the vertical elements, including the blue glass strips and the top are amazing.

nice

Very nice design. I love it. 9.0

8/10

8/10

10/10. It's Beautiful! :cheers2:

10/10

great building

8/10. it's nice and tall.

7/10

7.5/10

9/10

Looks okay to me 7/10

8/10 :)

takes it's design cues from a bygone age and not very well. 6.5/10

another great Chicago tall 8/10

10/10 amazing

Really cool building, especially the top. 8/10

I don't understand why this nearly 1000 foot tower doesn't look its height. It doesn't seem to be really fat. It has a good Philadelphia feel which is nice. It might be that it lies in Aon's shadow. I feel like I should like it better than I do

8/10

I really like this tower. 9/10.

10/10

9/10

9/10 The gradually recinding crown is well done if you look at it closely

I like the Philly look of it.. 9/10

9/10

9/10

7,5/10

I love this building.

http://www.emporis.com/files/transfer/5/2000/07/121038.jpg

http://www.skyscraperpicture.com/chicago25.jpg

http://usa.archiseek.com/illinois/chicago/images/prudential_plaza_lge.jpg

http://rhmayne.co.uk/Chicago/images/Chicago9.jpg

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An awsome design, beautiful, just wish it were a little taller.

An awsome design, beautiful, just wish it were a little taller.

I agree, Aon dwarfs it so much! This building is 5 feet short of 1,000 feet yet most pictures make it look like 600.

Pretty modern... 7/10

8/10

6/10..................

Easily one of the best post-modern buildings in the world.

9/10.

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Very nice one 8/10

8/10

not bad 7/10

a very beautiful tower. 8.5/10

i love it so much 9.5/10

6/10

7/10. I like some of the architechture but not all. I wish the whole building had setbacks and not just 2 sides. I like the spire but I dont think it matches the rest of the building well. I wish the whole building was that white color. And I think the line of blue glass in the middle looks weird with the set backs.

Still, it is an impressive building (although I don't like the way it fits in with its surroundings, this is 1 building that would look better surrounded by smaller buildings).

9.5/10 i love this building

10/10. Absolute favourite of Chicago..

7/10

9/10

7/10

8/10 nice

9/10

8/10.

7.5 / 10

not bad.

looks great from some angles and i like the top
8.5/10

8 / 10

7.5/10

It looks good from some angles only..but i feel its still rather chunky. Being next to the Aon Center just doesnt help its spire break into the skyline well.

I agree with you here. It is hard to imagine a 303 metre 'scraper being overshadowed but this one is. It is beside what is my favourite CHI building and the Aon simply commands the eye leaving this building looking surprisingly dwarfish for its huge height.

It's quite good looking in itself but being overshadowed reduces an 8 to a 7.

With AON center dwarfing it its hard to Imagine it is actually #25 on the list of the world's tallest (as of Jan 2006). But you can't always be the tallest ---- Nice architecture, bit bulky on the side... 8/10

Looks great from a distance. To me the only real negative are the "setbacks" on the facade. 8.0/10

9/10:D

One of the best in town.

10. superb!

7.5 / 10

7.5

7/10

8/10

8/10 Symphatic

9/10 i like it a lot...but the top looks a bit OTT...

Spectacular example of excellence in Nth American design. Such an impressive building, any city would be lucky to have this as their landmark tower. 9/10:banana:

Not bad.
8.5/10

matching not really good 6.5/10

10 this was my favorite building by far when i went to chicago 2 years ago.

Nice post modern building.
Its a mark in the Chigago's skyline, see the noturn pic in the first set of photos.

9/10 :okay:

Nice Nice! 9/10

8/10

mmmmm very nice 8/10

7.5/10

simple but okie..8.5/10

Just OK 7.5/10.

10 - elegant.

nice design 9/10

8/10

7/10

9/10 very nice tower

8/10. sharp.

8.0 from me.:)

i love this tower!!!!

mediocore I give it 6.5

7.5/10

9,5/10:)

One of Chicagos best! Heres a pic from Cbotnyse at ssp who I think works in the aon center (it was taken from the Aon center though)

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f21/cbotnyse/chicagpphotoshop/ChicagoPhotoShop54.jpg

9.5/10

8.5/10

One of my favorites- 10/10. :)

7/10

Interesting design but it doesn't convince me!

8/10

Chicago has so many great towers!

9.
awesome

One of my top favorites in Chicago! 10/10

9/10

6,5/10

nice architectural design 9/10

I've always wished the Aon didnt exist so this one would get more attention.

9/10

8/10

7.5/10

I love Two Prudential Plaza, It makes a great couple with AON...but I hate One Prudential Plaza with that out-of-proportion, doesn't-belong-here antenna.

9.5/10

10/10

Very nice building. I am content from the roof. Very smooth and beautiful tower block.

9/10

8.5/10

Not bad but nothing spectacular 7

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8.5/10

9/10

Beautiful, but not perfect.

9,5

8/10

7/10

A nice tower !

7.5/10

8.5/10

7.5/10

awesome :okay: 9.5/10

7/10

One of my favourite talls in my favourite skyline.

9.

9/10

9/10

9/10. very good looking building. hong kong could need it :).

9. Very good building. Regards.

9/10

9/10

9/10

9/10

nice top, like a space rocket ;) 8!

9/10

It brought a great shape to the flattop skyline of Chicago so I give it a 9.

One of Chicagos best! Heres a pic from Cbotnyse at ssp who I think works in the aon center (it was taken from the Aon center though)

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f21/cbotnyse/chicagpphotoshop/ChicagoPhotoShop54.jpg

I love it!
9.5/10

10/10:)

10/10

7.5/10

10/10

8.5/10

7.5

8/10

wow! i love it! it looks new and old at the same time.
9

One of my favourites in Chicago. 10/10