TheChicagoSpire has also received interest from its original developer, Garrett Kelleher, who still holds title to the property but lost day-to-day control of it to a receiver in 2010.
Known for the elegance of his designs, Calatrava discusses the relationship between art and architecture and man's desire to build increasingly higher -- he has recently conceived the proposed ChicagoSpire, soon to be the tallest residential building in the world.
From the oddball postmodernism of the mostly conceptual ChicagoSpire to the artfully low-slung eves of Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Homes, Chicago's buildings do not allow you to pass by without telling their own stories.