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333 Wacker Drive

Office skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois

Field	Value
name	333 Wacker Drive
image	333 Wacker Drive, Chicago in May 2016.jpg
location	333 Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois
coordinates
map_type	Chicago#Illinois#USA
start_date	1979
completion_date	1983
building_type	Commercial offices
current_tenants
roof	149 m
floor_count	36
floor_area	864200 sqft
architect	Kohn Pedersen Fox
HKS
owner	Hines Interests Limited Partnership
management	Hines Interests Limited Partnership
references

Chicago, Illinois HKS

333 West Wacker Drive is a highrise office building in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its reflection of the curves of the Chicago River on its river-facing side.

Design features

On the side facing the Chicago River, the building features a curved green glass façade, while on the other side the building adheres to the usual rectangular street grid. The glass reflects both the sky and the river flowing next to it. The architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates who designed 333 also designed the high-rise buildings 225 W Wacker to the east, and 191 N Wacker Drive to the south.

The building marks the division between North Wacker Drive and West Wacker Drive as the street makes a 90 degree turn. Based on the Chicago grid system for street numbers, if the building had been given an address on North Wacker, the street number would have been an odd number between 200 and 300.

In popular culture

333 Wacker Drive was featured in the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off as the building containing Ferris Bueller's father's offices, and was voted "Favorite Building" by the readers of The Chicago Tribune in 1995. In celebration of the 2018 Illinois Bicentennial, the 333 W. Wacker Drive building was selected as one of the Illinois 200 Great Places by the American Institute of Architects Illinois component (AIA Illinois).

The building is used for exterior shots of Crows Security headquarters in Batwoman.

Gallery

File:333 Wacker Dr.jpg|Closer view File:Chicago River from Lake Street bridge.jpg|333 Wacker (far right) and its Chicago River surroundings File:Wolf-Point-Chicago-01.jpg|Another view of the building in the context of the river, looking towards the east.

References

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"Emporis building ID 116840". [[Emporis]].
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kerch, steve. (April 30, 1995). "AND THE WINNERS ARE". Chicago Tribune.
Waldinger, Mike. (January 30, 2018). "The proud history of architecture in Illinois". Springfield Business Journal.
"Filming Locations: Where is Batwoman filmed?".

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