HISTORY ABOUT THE INLAND STEEL

 

INLAND STEEL

PROJECT FACT

Completion year: 1958

Design finish year: 1956

Size site area: 23,040 square feet

Building height: 331 feet

Number of stories: 19

Building gross area:  325.00 square feet

The inland steel building is one of the most modern architecture’s most epochal structures. The first Chicago high-rise built after the great depression, inland steel was the paradigm for SOM’s principle that high-rise form at its best does, indeed follow function. Inland steel changed the way towers are constructed and helped transform American office culture during the second half of the 20^th century.

The building consists of a 19-story office tower and a 25-story service tower. An on-storage unit that contains auxiliary facilities is affected by the service tower. The 19 floors of the office tower, each with an area of 10,200 square feet have no interior columns and therefore these open floor areas allow maximum flexibility in the arrangement of offices and work rooms.

The framing is structured steel, carders, 60 feet long span the whole building and support the bears and decking frames and mullions of the curtain wall are stainless steel, glazed with limited laminated glass and paneled with porous concrete and insulated stainless steel sheets.