Project Description
River Beech Tower
Chicago, US
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 structures. the River Beech Tower follows the program of an 80-story, 244-meter-tall timber residential tower situated along the South Branch of the Chicago River
Architects: Perkins+Will
Engineering: Centre for Natural Material Innovation, Director: Michael Ramage (Light Earth designs), Thornton Tomasetti
Images by Perkins + Will