The lower-level architecture and culture exhibition at the Skydeck. After taking in the views, visitors are encouraged to leave behind messages, both drawn and written, on an interactive sequin wall. Along with interior revamps that include lighting enhancements and building technology upgrades that help to expand the views, a fleet of new interactive monitors installed throughout the Skydeck school visitors in Chicago’s rich architectural history. While work at the Skydeck marks a return to its unfussy original form in which the star attraction is, of course, the sweeping views, this isn’t to say that it hasn’t gained new features. “We wanted to create a quiet backdrop for people to be fully immersed in the city’s skyline and allow the view to speak for itself.” In creating the new Skydeck, we wanted to honor the structural clarity and simplicity of the tower’s original design approach,” explained Scott Duncan, design partner at SOM, in a statement. Envisioned in our studios more than 50 years ago, its design continues to inspire us today. “Willis Tower is synonymous with Chicago’s skyline. One of the most popular attractions in Chicago, the reimagined and renovated Skydeck at Willis Tower takes a step back, with SOM noting in a press release that the vertiginous attraction “returns to the original vision for the building, foregrounding the tower’s iconic views while showcasing its pioneering structural design through minimal design gestures and subtle finishes.”
(It currently ranks as the third tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.) In 2009, SOM also oversaw the design of The Ledge at the Skydeck, a pulse-raising quartet of glass-enclosed balconies that extend over 4-feet out from the tower’s 103rd floor. The Willis Tower (née the Sears Tower) also ranked as the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere for more than four decades, up until the completion of the new One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan in 2013.
Along with the newly completed renovation, SOM designed the Willis Tower itself, a superlatively lanky Chicago landmark that, at 1,450-feet-tall, reigned as the tallest building in the world for 25 years beginning at its completion in 1974.
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