465 North Park Apartments

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Project Description

The building’s unique design, derived from three ellipses that overlap, slide apart, and cant, powerfully enhances the city’s architectural landscape and skyline with its fluid, shifting presence and glowing “Crown”. The undulating tower mass flows seamlessly down to the base podium, with one edge grounded to the southwest corner of the site where it recedes in both directions, allowing visual prominence for the residential lobby and the primary retail space. A tall ground floor and entry lit 24/7 enlivens and provides extra security for the street. Internal parking rises five stories inside the core, screened from view by the residential units wrapping the lower floors along the two primary streets. An internal driveway through the south end of the podium handles all ingress/egress traffic for the parking garage, as well as all loading dock facilities, ensuring that there will be no curb cuts along pedestrian-heavy Illinois Street. The rich aesthetic of the lobby, punctuated by a 15-foot-tall custom plaster and terrazzo circular staircase, is carried up into the 6th and 38th floor amenity areas, which include fully featured exterior spaces that wrap around the interiors. The elliptical plans were overlaid and canted in a way that allowed for sweeping views and a rich variety of unit configurations and sizes to accommodate varying lifestyles and income levels. The building’s 444 upscale residences include studios, convertibles, one-, two- and three-bedroom units, and nine two-story townhomes on the fourth and fifth floors.