Civil, Architecture & Construction.

River Beach Tower Architects:  Perkins + Will Location:  Chicago, United States Structural Engineer:  Thornton Tomasetti Structural Material:  Timber Type:  Residential Status:  Vision The Chicago River Beach Tower is a collaborative research effort with the goal of identifying challenges and opportunities associated with designing increasingly tall mass timber structures. A key objective of the project is to explore new design potential with timber buildings, rather than substituting timber in the familiar forms of conventional construction in steel and concrete. Designed by the Chicago offices of Perkins + Will and Thornton Tomasetti in collaboration with researchers at the University of Cambridge's Centre for Natural Material Innovation, the River Beach Tower follows the program of an 80 -story, 244 meter tall timber residential tower situated along the South Branch of the Chicago River. Exposed mass timber would offer a unique e...