Photo Credit: Steffen Schragle

Lake Point Tower, or more precisely the tip of Lake Point Tower, made the October 29th issue of The Economist, a British publication.

The copy in the upper right reads:

“The mist came in suddenly from the lake.  I wanted to go higher up to shoot it and the only tower I could find quickly was the John Hancock Centre, a kind of symbol of Chicago.  The white building at the front is the Onterie Center and the dark one behind is Lake Point Tower.”

The image is from a photo-essay entitled “A World of Mist,” by Steffen Schragle, with text by Robert Macfarlane.  Along with Chicago’s building tops were misty photos from New Zealand, Germany and Argentina.

Thanks, Mr. Schragle, Mr. Macfarlane and The Economist.   We residents at Lake Point Tower are honored.

Filed under: Photos ]]> http://lakepointtower.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/lake-point-tower-economist/feed/ 0 Paul LPT Economist http://lakepointtower.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/openhousechicago-at-lake-point-tower-a-video/ http://lakepointtower.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/openhousechicago-at-lake-point-tower-a-video/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:10:21 +0000 paulleroux http://lakepointtower.wordpress.com/?p=1238 ]]> Volunteer Linda Ozag created this YouTube video of Lake Point Tower’s Skyline Park at the October OpenHouseChicago event of  the Chicago Architecture Foundation.

Thank you Linda, and all the other volunteers who helped at the event.

Lake Point Tower Garden: Skyline Park

Open House Chicago, sponsored by the Chicago Architecture Foundation, has selected the rooftop garden at Lake Point Tower as one of the premier locations for this two-day event.

Participants in Open House Chicago will have the opportunity to visit our garden on October 15th and 16th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.  Preregistration is required.

Becky Froeter-Mathis, landscape architect with Hitchcock Design Group, will be on hand to describe the Master Plan guiding renovations of the park.

Would you would like a free insider look at other great spaces and places in Chicago as well?  Mark your calendars for this weekend and click HERE for full details and to register for the event.

Look at these lovely clouds over Navy Pier. What a dramatic show of lake and sky.

If you’d like to make your own search story, Google’s got a fun and easy tool.  Click here for the quick explanation.  And here to just jump in and make one.

Dennis Domer

On July 18, Dennis Domer, an expert on landscape architect Alfred Caldwell, who designed Lake Point Tower‘s magnificent Sklyline Park, spoke with building residents about Mr. Caldwell’s life and work.  The audience gathered inLPTs third floor glass-enclosed warp-around corridor.  Mr. Domer’s expertise, wit and Caldwell remembrances were an immediate hit with the group.

Group tour of Lake Point Tower's third floor roof-top garden

Following Mr. Domer’s presentation, the group toured Lake Point Tower’s Skyline Park.  The tour was led by Becky Froeter-Mathis, an LPT landscape architect consultant with Hitchcock Design Group.  Two other architects were in the tour group: George Schipporeit, one of the building’s architects; Deever Rockwell, LPT resident and an architect who worked with Alfred Caldwell.

Deever Rockwell, left, and George Schipporeit

Dennis Domer’s’ book, Alfred Caldwell: the Life and Works of a Prairie School Landscape Architect, is available to interested readers.  Please click on the link.

Also, view our Flickr album on Lake Point Tower’s lovely third floor park.

Click image to see Curbed Chicago's Photos

Thanks, Curbed Chicago, for the nice photos and description of our third floor park in your post today.

Director Paul LeRoux, judges and winners of student design contest

On April  2011 in Las Vegas, the Kitchen And Bath Association announced winners of the student designer competition for kitchen and bath designs, based on Lake Point Tower floor plans.

At his own expense, Paul LeRoux, a director and resident of Lake Point Tower, attended the design award ceremony.

In the photo, LeRoux is show with the judges and award winners, giving them a copy of the book Lake Point Tower, A Design History, for their efforts and as a “thank you” from the building.

Dawn from Lake Point Tower

When one thinks about views, one often thinks city views.  But vistas of the every-changing lake and sky are among the pleasures of living at Lake Point Tower.

See more views from Lake Point Tower windows, taken by many owners.

Update:  WBEZ HAS POSTPONED THIS EVENT

You can still enter the race to “Climb the Tower” on October 24.

To climb Lake Point Tower, that is.  All to benefit the public radio station WBEZ.

Here’s the registration link.

We hear that about 1,000 people will be running up 65 floors of our building, the fastest in under 10 minutes.