333 West Wacker Drive is a highrise office building in

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, noted for its reflection of the curves of the Chicago River on its river-facing side.

Design features

On the side facing the

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, 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

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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 Wacker Drive is a major multilevel street in Chicago, Illinois, running along the south side of the main branch and the east side of the south branch of the Chicago River in the Loop.Hayner, Don and Tom McNamee, ''Streetwise Chicago'', "Wacker D ...

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.

Major tenants

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* Aetna Insurance * RedRidge Finance Group * ExWorks Capital *

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In popular culture

333 Wacker Drive was featured in the 1986 movie ''

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'' as the building containing

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'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

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Illinois component (AIA Illinois). The building is used for exterior shots of Crows Security headquarters in ''

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''.

Gallery

File:333 Wacker Dr.jpg, Closer view File:Chicago River from Lake Street bridge.jpg, 333 Wacker (far right) and its

surroundings File:Wolf-Point-Chicago-01.jpg, Another view of the building in the context of the river, looking towards the east.

References

External links

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