Craftsman Pete Willy welded metal brackets that would attach the old facade onto the renovated John Buck North Bridge Building. The new structure would contain retail space, a hotel, and living spaces. The City designated the original art deco facade an historic landmark. ©Robert A. Davis / CITY 2000
Amidst the square peaks and reaching antennae of the Water Tower and John Hancock Building, cranes, frames and girders also rise toward the sky. Crane operator Mike Femali takes a snack break between construction work—eight-hundred and fifty feet above the Magnificent Mile—at the site of the new Park Hyatt Hotel. ©Robert A. Davis / CITY 2000
