An 80-story Wooden Skyscraper Could Come to Downtown Chicago

An 80-story wooden skyscraper could pop up along Chicago’s riverfront within the next 10 years — if architecture firm Perkins + Will, alongside structural engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti and the University of Cambridge, get their way.

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If completed, the River Beech Tower would be the world’s tallest wooden skyscraper and provide 300 residential apartments and “communal skyparks” for the neighborhood.

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