Chicago Spire

By pcherry November 15, 2009 - The design of the Chicago Spire isn’t the only thing that keeps twisting. The number of law suits and counter suits just keeps getting more complicated. The latest legal development for this Chicago real estate project is that Shelbourne Development founder Garrett Ke...

By pcherry October 15, 2009 - Shelbourne Development keeps insisting that the Chicago Spire is just temporarily on hold and that there is still a lot of interest in the mega Chicago real estate project. A spokeswoman was recently quoted in a Tribune article as saying that they were still having peopl...

 Ireland Shelbourne is headed by businessman Garrett Kelleher and is involved in a number of projects in Ireland, Britain, Europe and the US. One of its highest-profile developments is the Chicago Spire in the US, a residential tower block with 1190 apartments. ...

 Ireland By Donal Buckley Garrett Kelleher's latest French development is completely different from the high density, urban developments with which we usually associate his name. Unlike his proposed Chicago Spire in the heart of one of America's famous urban ...

 NY Remember Santiago Calatrava's Chicago Spire, which has now existed for quite some time as a big gaping hole? The AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trusts have breathed some new life into the project that most had perceived as forever deceased, ...

By pcherry March 25, 2009 - There is evidently some behind the scenes activity going on with the Chicago Spire. Work on the 150 story, 2,000 foot Lake Shore Drive high-rise has been put on hold indefinitely until the housing market recovers and the project has several liens filed against it. But report...

The planned 150-story Chicago Spire would be 2000 feet tall if it gets built atop its completed foundation, ranking the tower the tallest in the Western Hemisphere and the sixth-tallest among the world's planned skyscrapers. The Spire was supposed to ...

By pcherry February 23, 2009 - While there is no new news about the Chicago Spire, there is an update about the so-called Evanston Spire. The Evanston Planning and Development Committee recently voted to limit the height of buildings in the downtown area to 35 stories. This directly affects the propo...

Back in the US, the Chicago Spire, a planned 2013-foot residential tower, has been stopped amid the economic downturn. The architect also says the developer owes him more than $11 million. But officials say they're confident the project will move ...

Like the greatest love affairs, architecture can provoke plenty of pain and waves of joy. For Americans living in the bloated suburbs of Los Angeles or Phoenix, architecture has become a tacky souvenir of a hollowed-out dream. The Chicago Spire by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava - i...

Chicago: The site of the Chicago Spire, at center left, appears progressively more forlorn. Michael Kardas took this...

Stay the night: Trump International Hotel & Tower, Chicago  UK - Yet, when Santiago Calatrava's Chicago Spire opens a few blocks away in 2011, Trump's Tower will be relegated to third place. ...

By webmaster@huffingtonpost.com That's because work on the Chicago Spire has slowed to a virtual halt. Someday, the twisting skyscraper by Santiago Calatrava is supposed to rise over the skyline. But now, it's basically a concrete hole in the ground. ...

Shelbourne Development says it has sold 30% of the units of the Chicago Spire; Raising finance in uncertain times the next step · Global House Price Index: Annual house price inflation in Q1 2008 stood at 6.1% compared to 9.2% in Q4 ...

By Deidre Woollard It is to be perhaps Chicago's most recognizable landmark, but first Santiago Calatrava's planned Chicago Spire has to get off the ground. The building of the dramatic swirl of a building is currently stalled out. ...

 NY - Nov 10, 2008 Following up on a post from a short while ago concerning the troubles surrounding Santiago Calatrava's Chicago Spire and how construction has ground to a ...

Although we were sort of excited to see the Spire go up (despite sticking out like a sore thumb within the Chicago skyline), we do feel fairly fortunate that we won't have to worry anymore about Ty Warner looking down at us from his sky castle.

Another day, another lien on the Spire. It was sunny this morning, and I was in the neighborhood, so I strolled under Lake Shore Drive for a look at the site of The Spire, where...

November 5, 2008 - The list of liens against The Chicago Spire got a little bit longer with the addition of a $1.3 million mechanic’s lien filed by Thornton Tomasetti Incorporated. The company is a structural engineering firm out of New ...

file a mechanic’s lien against the Chicago Spire. The New York-based company filed a lien Oct. 24 claiming it is owed $1.3 million for unpaid work on the proposed twisting tower that’s to rise 2000 feet at 400 N. Lake Shore Drive. ...

 Ireland - Garrett Kelleher, the Irish businessman behind the delayed Chicago Spire scheme, is expected to redevelop Hawkins House near Tara Street, in partnership ...

By thebram31 Over the last weekend the Chicago Tribune broadcast the news  (first broken by Crain’s Chicago Business) that Santiago Calatrava, along with a Chicago architectural design firm, have filed liens against the Shelbourne Development Group totaling over $16 million dollars. And yet it w...

Chicago just got a little colder as the end to a decades-long building boom has left two of the city’s tallest building projects stuck in limbo, leaving their owners scrambling to seek alternative methods of financing. Developers of the 1,047-ft-tall Waterview Tower and 2,000-ft-tall...

By Richard Lacayo It looks like the real estate slowdown is creating problems for the Chicago Spire, the super-sized condo tower designed by Santiago Calatrava. Planned to top out at around 115 stories, it will be the tallest building in America — if it ...

The spire's developer, Shelbourne Development Ltd., has begun underground construction of the building at 400 N. Lake Shore. But it has acknowledged slowing the pace of the work because turmoil in financial markets has limited access to credit.

But if the Chicago Spire is actually built on the lakefront to its design height of 2000 feet with 150 floors, it would trump the Trump and Sears towers. With its spire, Chicago's Trump Tower will rise to a height of 1362 feet, ...

By Tempo A firm associated with project architect Santiago Calatrava has filed a lien with the Cook County Recorder of Deeds against developer Shelbourne Development Group Inc., saying he is owed $11.3 million on the project. ...

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By The Huffington Post News Editors The lien against Dublin, Ireland-based Shelbourne Development Ltd., along with another by architecture firm Perkins & Will Inc. for $4.85 million, is the latest sign that the planned 150-story tower is struggling to get out of the ground.

There's reportedly a problem in the construction of the Chicago Spire. Crain's Chicago Business says Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava has stopped working on the building, saying the developer hasn't paid him millions of dollars.

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By Robert Ty Warner, founder of the Ty Company that makes these little $5 stuffed animals has reportedly purchased the 141st and 142nd floor of The Chicago Spire (400 North Lake Shore Drive) for a cool forty million dollars. ...

By Joseph Askins A spokeswoman for Dublin-based development company Shelbourne Development Group, from today's Globe St article about construction stopping at The Chicago Spire. The last couple of articles we've linked to in our Spire updates quoted ...

 Ireland - Oct 5, 2008 The 150-storey Chicago Spire, due to be completed in 2012, is being built by Irish firm Shelbourne Development and was designed by the feted architect, ...

By Tempo shedding crocodile tears at the demise of American supertall skyscrapers (except for his own, of course), there's a sign of life for the Chicago Spire, the under-construction 2000-foot-tall tower designed by Santiago Calatrava. ...

By Marcus Gilmer Ty Warner, the man in charge of the Beanie Baby empire, has bought the two-story, 10,000 square foot penthouse that will sit atop the Chicago Spire, giving him a 360-degree view of the city; it will be the highest residential unit IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD. While the asking was price was $40 mil...

By The Huffington Post News Editors Beanie Babies magnate Ty Warner has bought the duplex penthouse in the not-yet-built Chicago Spire, WGN-TV reports. The 10,000 square-foot, duplex is expected to be the 141st and 142nd floors of Santiago Calatrava's 2,000 foot-tall lake shore skyscraper.

The Chicago Spire is nothing more than a concrete hole in the ground but reclusive Beanie Baby magnate Ty Warner has decided he wants the best views from the proposed building.

An aerial picture by Tribune photographer Zbigniew Bzdak reveals construction progress on the 2.2-acre site of the planned 2000-foot Chicago Spire condominium tower, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and located just ...

By Tempo The wings on the dome designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava will no longer open and close once the hub is built, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey executive director Christopher Ward said Tuesday. ...

By John Designed by Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava, The Chicago Spire will be the world’s tallest exclusively residential building and the tallest building in the western world when complete in 2012. ...

By Tempo but rather a report in today's Tribune business section which says that the developer of the Chicago Spire is claiming that he has sold 30 percent of the condo units in the 150-story, Santiago Calatrava-designed tower. ...

By thebram31 I thought it was always going to be built but I guess selling 30% of the condos means that Calatrava’s Chicago Spire will be built for sure.  From the Chicago Tribune: read it here. Apparently this is also going to be the tallest residential structure in the world which fits perfectly into Chi...

By Deidre Woollard But the developer behind one of the most ambitious projects in the U.S., the Chicago Spire, is saying that the Santiago Calatrava-designed building is a go. The developer says they have already sold 30 percent of the building's condo ...

By Tempo junkie for the Chicago Spire. The thin, twisting tower could be one of the city's--indeed one of the world's--great skyscrapers. And yet, I can't help but be skeptical about its prospects, given Chicago's glut of condominiums. ...

Calatrava's Chicago Spire is finally under construction. The construction of The Chicago Spire started in July 2007. Over the following months, 34 supporting caissons will be drilled 120 feet into bedrock below the site, providing the ...

By Todd McClamroch Four international club teams are slated to match up this Friday and Sunday in the first ever Chicago Trophy Soccer Tournament at Soldier Field. Each team will play two matches and be awarded three points for a win and bonus points for goals to determine who gets to take home the Chicago Trop...

The developer of the planned Chicago Spire, the twisting 150-story lakefront skyscraper that will be the nation's tallest building, announced Tuesday that construction on the tower's foundations will begin "within weeks."

At 2,000 feet, Santiago Calatrava's tower will be the tallest building in North America

By Louis Frascogna The design has continued to change from the original Fordham Spire's pyramid like shape topped with a TV tower, to a flat top twizzler, and finally onto its current rounded top incarnation. The design shown to the Plan Commission was slightly different than the one shown last month to Stre...

The Chicago Plan Commission gives the go-ahead to the Chicago Spire Project on Thursday, bringing the city one step closer to becoming home to North America's tallest building.

By Louis Frascogna In comes Dublin-based (now do you get the jokes in the previous paragraph) Developer, Garret Kelleher, and Architect, Santiago Calatrava, with their Chicago Spire. They envision the park as only a part of the grand scheme of North American height domination, which will only be surpasse...