Lucien Lagrange & Associates or Lucien Lagrange Architects is an architecture firm 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 Archi ...

in 1985. The company filed for

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in 2010. The company is located at 605 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, 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 architect who came to Chicago in 1978 after studying at McGill University and who rose to prominence while working for

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is an American architectural, urban planning and engineering firm. It was founded in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel A. Owings, Nathaniel Owings in Chicago, Illinois. In 1939, they were joined by engineer Jo ...

after having been a 1950s high school

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. 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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Carbide & Carbon Building The Carbide & Carbon Building is a 37-story, landmark Art Deco high rise built in 1929, located on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. It was converted to a hotel in 2004. History The building was designed by the Burnham Brothers (the firm launched ...

that had originally been designed by Daniel Burnham's sons to host the originators of the Eveready Battery. The firm has renovated Chicago's Union Station 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 Bal Harbour, Florida. It is the architect for the

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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 West End Avenue (

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), River House Condominiums ( Grand Rapids, Michigan), 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 Chicago metropolitan area, where it is expanding the Blue Chip Casino in Michigan City, Indiana for Boyd Gaming to be the tallest building on

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outside of Chicago or Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the third tallest building in Metropolitan Chicago outside of Chicago. The firm is a notable contributor to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.

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Lucien Lagrange website
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