116 South Michigan

Horwitz & Company
100,000 s.f., 17 Stories
116 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, Illinois

Originally built as Chicago’s Municipal Building, this structure designed by Jenney Mundie & Jensen in 1906, has been totally renovated for modern office usage. Part restoration and part renovation, the non-descript original lobby is redefined and embellished with new marble, decorative plaster, terrazzo, ambient lighting, and bronze doors – all to reestablish the building’s turn-of-the-century character and elegance.

On the façade of the narrow, glazed terra-cotta building, two new columns are placed to visually support the structures and relate it to the existing streetscape, while a new storefront and entry are detailed in a manner sympathetic to the original construction.