Southbank

Chicago
Official Name
The current legal building name.

Southbank

Type

Complex

Status
Completed
Architecturally Topped Out
Structurally Topped Out
Under Construction
Proposed
On Hold
Never Completed
Vision
Competition Entry
Canceled
Proposed Renovation
Under Renovation
Renovated
Under Demolition
Demolished

Completed

Country

United States

City

Chicago

Function

residential

# of Apartments

752

# of Parking Spaces

230

Map of Buildings in Complex

Note: Only buildings that have GPS coordinates recorded are displayed.

 

List of Buildings in Complex

Rank
Building Name
Status
Completed
Architecturally Topped Out
Structurally Topped Out
Under Construction
Proposed
On Hold
Never Completed
Vision
Competition Entry
Canceled
Proposed Renovation
Under Renovation
Renovated
Under Demolition
Demolished
Completion
Height
Floors
Material
Use
1 River Beech Tower
- 228 m / 748 ft 80 timber residential
2 Southbank Building A
- 182.3 m / 598 ft 51 concrete residential
3 Southbank Building B
- 127.3 m / 418 ft 38 concrete residential
4 Southbank Building E
- 126.8 m / 416 ft 38 concrete residential
5 The Cooper
2018 97.8 m / 321 ft 29 concrete residential
6 Southbank Building C
- 90.4 m / 296 ft 26 concrete residential

CTBUH Initiatives

CTBUH Atlanta Hosts Tall Timber Panel Event

26 July 2018 - Event

CTBUH Joins Chicago Seminar on Mass Timber Buildings

8 June 2017 - Event

Videos

30 October 2017

Interview: Robert Foster

Robert Foster of The University of Queensland is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2017 CTBUH Australia Conference.

Research

30 October 2017

Rethinking CTBUH Height Criteria In the Context of Tall Timber

Robert M. Foster, University of Queensland; Michael H. Ramage, University of Cambridge; Thomas Reynolds, The University of Edinburgh

Recent developments in the design and construction of progressively taller buildings using engineered timber as a structural material raise important questions about the language that...

30 October 2017

Rethinking CTBUH Height Criteria In the Context of Tall Timber

Robert M. Foster, University of Queensland; Michael H. Ramage, University of Cambridge; Thomas Reynolds, The University of Edinburgh

Recent developments in the design and construction of progressively taller buildings using engineered timber as a structural material raise important questions about the language that...

20 April 2017

River Beech Tower: A Tall Timber Experiment

Jeff Sanner & Todd Snapp, Perkins+Will; Alejandro Fernandez, Thornton Tomasetti; et al.

The Chicago River Beech Tower is a collaborative research effort with the goal of identifying challenges and opportunities associated with designing increasingly tall mass timber...

26 July 2018

CTBUH Atlanta Hosts Tall Timber Panel Event

CTBUH Atlanta recently held an evening of panel presentations that addressed some of the challenges and opportunities associated with designing mass timber structures.

8 June 2017

CTBUH Joins Chicago Seminar on Mass Timber Buildings

CTBUH joined a CCHRB seminar on "The Heavy Timber High Rise: Building Tall with Wood in the 21st Century," focused on new applications of wood as a structural material.