Chicago Spire

Chicago, United States

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Chicago Spire was a cancelled skyscraper project designed by Spanish architect-engineer Santiago Calatrava for a site at 400 Lake Shore. Originally proposed as the Fordham Spire in July 2005 by developer Christopher T. Carley of the Fordham Company, the postmodern design would have risen 610 metres (2,000 feet) with 150 floors, making it the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere had it been completed. The scheme included a hotel, condominiums, and a broadcast antenna mast, and received unanimous approval from the Chicago Plan Commission in March 2006. Partial construction began in 2007, but halted with the onset of the Great Recession. After nine years of litigation, a 2014 court ruling transferred the property to Related Midwest, the project's primary creditor, who declined to proceed with the Spire.