NBC Tower Architect: Skidmore, Owings And Merrill LLP Date: 1989 Style: Postmodern Address: 454 N. Columbus Drive Size: 627 ft. (37 floors) Materials: Limestone Program: Commercial Office, TV Studio The NBC Tower is located on Columbus Drive and is home to Chicago’s NBC TV studio. The building has flying buttresses that decorate the sides of the tower and it is considered to be one of the closest postmodern imitations of the art deco style. The top of the building has a tapered spire and the two facades of the building are decorated with the colorful NBC peacock logo.‹›
NBC Tower

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Interior · Chicago, United States · 1989

Photo: Chicago Architecture Today · 2012-07-03 · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 3264×2448

NBC Tower Architect: Skidmore, Owings And Merrill LLP Date: 1989 Style: Postmodern Address: 454 N. Columbus Drive Size: 627 ft. (37 floors) Materials: Limestone Program: Commercial Office, TV Studio The NBC Tower is located on Columbus Drive and is home to Chicago’s NBC TV studio. The building has flying buttresses that decorate the sides of the tower and it is considered to be one of the closest postmodern imitations of the art deco style. The top of the building has a tapered spire and the two facades of the building are decorated with the colorful NBC peacock logo.

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