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Lake Point Tower is a high-rise residential building located on a promontory of the Lake Michigan lakefront in downtown Chicago, just north of the Chicago River at 505 North Lake Shore Drive. It is located in the Streeterville neighborhood of the Near North Side community area. It rises somewhat apart from the urban cluster of downtown Chicago. Located adjacent to Navy Pier, the building is the only skyscraper in downtown Chicago east of Lake Shore Drive.Its tall curved three wing ‘Y’ shape inspired the Chicago-born architect Adrian Smith in the conception of the Burj Khalifa,More info:wiki

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#10 Chicago’s Lake Point Tower is turning 50,More info:archinect

As Lake Point Tower, once the world’s tallest all-residential high-rise, celebrates its 50th anniversary this weekend, it’s an apt time to reflect on its legacy. The 70-story condominium tower, which sits just west of Navy Pier at 505 N. Lake Shore Drive, is both hero and villain, though it is more the former than the latter. — Chicago Tribune

Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin looks back at the history and the significance of Lake Point Tower; as he calls it “by all accounts a spectacular and rare object — a poetic expression of curves in a city that worships the right angle.”

#9 Column: 50 years later, Lake Point Tower is a singular achievement — and let’s hope it stays that way,More info:chicagotribune

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#4 Four Killer Views From Lonely Lake Point Tower,More info:chicagomag

A city of skyscrapers, Chicago commands one of the largest and most architecturally diverse collections of tall towers in the world. But perhaps no building in the city elicits more curiosity than Lake Point Tower, the lone high-rise standing east of Lake Shore Drive. Why is it there? And why aren’t there any other buildings around it?

It’s a two-part answer, beginning with the passage of the Lakefront Protection Ordinance in the late ’60s and ending with the reconstruction of Lake Shore Drive in the ’80s. The Lake Shore Drive overhaul was meant to improve traffic flow and safety for drivers, but it also made the late modernist Lake Point Tower a loner in perpetuity, protecting residents’ views of Lake Michigan from competing skyscrapers.