Recently we published a photograph of Lake Point Tower, which made me think of this trivia question.
Q:Lake Point Tower (seen below) at 505 North Lake Shore Drive is the only residential building east of North Lake Shore Drive. But it's not the only one with an odd house number. What is the other building with a street address indicating that it is on the east side of Lake Shore Drive?
This building should actually have the address 954 North Lake Shore Drive, but has been granted the vanity address of 999 Lake Shore Drive, even though it is on the west side of the street.
In a scene vaguely reminiscent of 2001: A Space Oddyssey, the giant black monolith that is Lake Point Tower(505 North Lake Shore Drive) rises over the new park in Streeterville.
OK, maybe I'm the only one who sees it. Maybe you see something else.
1969 was a great year for Chicago architecture. Across the city buildings large and small were going up in a frenzy of cranes, and bricks, and steel.
One of those buildings marking its progression into middle age is Lake Point Tower(505 North Lake Shore Drive).
Paul LeRoux, over at LPT sent us a packet of information related to the building's anniversary, including a neat brochure with some great photography of the building by Bart Shore and Anthony R. Vizzari we hadn't seen before.
Mr. LeRoux also sent over a video about the tower, which highlights many of its fabulous views. You can view the video here:
If you're low bandwidth, or would like a DVD version, it's available in the management office for $5.00.
There are several private events scheduled to celebrate Lake Point Tower, but there's also a public event. October 28th the developer and architect will take part in a symposium at 12:15pm at the Chicago Architecture Foundation (224 South Michigan Avenue). Also at the symposium will be Edward Windhorst, and Kevin Harrington the authors of an upcoming book titled Lake Point Tower, A Design History. It is due to be released in mid-September.
In addition to these efforts, the people at Lake Point Tower are getting all social with their building. Here are blog, Twitter, and Flickr links.
Here's some Lake Point Tower trivia:
It's the only residential building east of Lake Shore Drive.
It is surrounded on three sides by water.
It has a private park and pond.
It is in the American Institute of Architects list of the top 150 most loved pieces of architecture in America.
A number of architects live and have lived at Lake Point Tower, along with sports stars and other celebrities.
