You can call it the Park Monroe all you want, but to us it's still Mid-Continental Plaza . The conversion of the upper stories of this office building into swanky double-height condominiums actually appears to have done the building some good.
It's no longer a boing box of grey pinstripes. The change in form at the residential level gives it an interesting visual cap and helps it stand out more than it did before.
This one bugs me. It was such a classic Chicago Modernist box, now it looks awkward imho. I wish there were still enough corporations in need of space to have kept it useful for it's intended purpose.
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