Lucien Lagrange & Associates or Lucien Lagrange Architects is an

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founded by

Lucien Lagrange Lucien Lagrange (born 1940 in France) is an architect and a former partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, who founded his own firm, named Lucien Lagrange Architects in 1985. The studio is a representative of New Urbanism and New Classical Arc ...

in 1985. The company filed for

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in 2010. The company is located at 605 North Michigan Avenue in

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, and it has approximately sixty employees."The Man With A Plan", ''Chicago Social'', November 2007, Modern Luxury Media, LLC., Chicago, IL, pp. 102-104. The company is owned 100% by Lucien Lagrange. Lagrange is a

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-born

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who came to Chicago in 1978 after studying at

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and who rose to prominence while working for

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after having been a 1950s

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dropout. Among the 21st century projects that the firm has completed are The Pinnacle and Park Tower. The firm was responsible for the renovation of the

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that had originally been designed by

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's sons to host the originators of the

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. The firm has renovated Chicago's

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and is currently continuing its series of proposals to expand above the

. Currently, it pursuing the 26-story Union Station Tower, which has been in various planning stages since 2002. In the past twenty-five years it has been involved in attempted Union Station expansions such as the 55-story One Union Plaza (1989) and the Union Station Towers (1986). The firm was selected in 2005 as the architect of the St. Regis Hotels & Resorts in

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. It is the architect for the Lincoln Park 2520 project and the never-built 126 East Chestnut building, which was to have been completed in 2009. It is the architect of the following buildings: Elysian, Chicago (Chicago), Ten East Delaware (Chicago), 535

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(

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), River House Condominiums (

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), and Blue Chip Casino Hotel Tower (

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). The company is described in the real estate industry as one of Chicago's premier residence architects. The firm's reach extends throughout the

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, where it is expanding the Blue Chip Casino in Michigan City, Indiana for

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to be the tallest building on

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outside of Chicago or

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and the third tallest building in Metropolitan Chicago outside of Chicago. The firm is a notable contributor to

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References

External links

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Lucien Lagrange website
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