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The Legacy at Millennium Park is a 72-story skyscraper in
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, Illinois, United States, located along S. Wabash Avenue, near E. Monroe Street. At 822 feet (251 meters), it is the seventeenth-tallest building in Chicago. The residential tower and mixed-use podium, designed by the architectural firm Solomon, Cordwell, Buenz, contains 360 luxury condominium units and 460 parking spaces.Official Architecture Firm Website for The Legacy
/ref> Additionally the building includes of classroom space for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the lower floors, athletic facilities for the University Club, a sky-bridge between the University Club and the building podium, and private amenities for tower residents including an athletics and aquatic center as well as residential lounges located throughout the tower. The building preserves the historic masonry and terracotta facades of the
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along Wabash Avenue. The building's narrow design is intended to maximize vantage points to
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and Millennium Park from all residences in the tower.


See also

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Facadism Facadism, façadism, or façadomy is the architectural and construction practice where the facade of a building is designed or constructed separately from the rest of a building, or when only the facade of a building is preserved with new buil ...
* The Heritage at Millennium Park * List of tallest buildings in Chicago * List of tallest buildings in the United States *
List of tallest buildings in the world This list of tallest buildings includes skyscrapers with continuously occupiable floors and a height of at least . Non-building structures, such as towers, are not included in this list (for these, see ''List of tallest buildings and structur ...
* List of tallest residential buildings in the world


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Solomon Cordwell Buenz Website Page For The LegacyDeveloper Website for The LegacyGoogle Earth Model
{{Chicago Skyscrapers Residential skyscrapers in Chicago Residential condominiums in Chicago University and college academic buildings in the United States Residential buildings completed in 2009 2009 establishments in Illinois