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The Loews Chicago Hotel or Loews Tower is a 50 story skyscraper in Downtown Chicago. The Loews Hotel was designed by Architect group Solomon Cordwell Buenz and developed by the DRW Trading Group of Chicago. Construction of the tower began in 2013 and was finished in 2015. The tower opened officially in March of 2015. The Loews Hotel Tower is the 58th tallest building in the Chicago area topping out at 569 ft.

The Building
The tower stands at 569 feet and is 928,000 square feet. The tower is comprised of 50 floors with the first 14 floors making up the hotel rooms and the remaining 36 floors being the residential apartments. While both of these sections are part of the same structure the hotel and the apartments are completely distinct from one another, each possessing their own separate spaces. The tower follows the modern architecture style. The tower is very minimalist in nature with its bland walls and lack of adornment.The base of the tower is made out of stone and concrete. After the third story the tower base becomes the thin part of the tower and is made out of different colored glass. The different colors of glass separate the different sections of the Loews Tower. The hotel portion is made up of a blue-green glass and the apartments have a silver glass. Along the edges of the face of the tower there are lengths of balconies which are made up of a darker glass.

Troubles in Building
The construction site of the new tower created problems for the architect firm building the tower. At the building location the road was sloped and elevated. The sloping made it difficult for the contractors to deal with entrances and separating the road from the pedestrian arrival or service points. Gary Kohn, the managing principal on the project said that the sloping created issues but it also gave them the opportunity to use the street to separate the service entrances from the residential or hotel entrances.

Rooftop Terrace
With the opening of the tower in March they planned to open a rooftop cafe on the their terrace. At the opening the boasted of having the largest rooftop terrace/cafe in the entire Chicago area. While the terrace may be the largest it is most definitely not the tallest only being on the third floor.

Events
Seeing as the tower is fairly new there have not been very many notable events. However, after the opening Jose Garces and a dozen of chefs held a charity event. This event was used to raise money for the Garces Foundation at the tower.

Critical Review
The Loews Hotel segment of the Tower has been rated as one of the top 41 hotels in the Chicago area. According to the Chicago Tribune the interior design is a poor attempt at a parody of Chicago's industrial might that were founded by Louis Sullivan and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe