Lucien Lagrange Architects

Lucien Lagrange & Associates or Lucien Lagrange Architects is an architecture firm founded by Lucien Lagrange in 1985.[1] The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010.[2] The company is located at 605 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois,[3] and it has approximately sixty employees.[4][5] The company is owned 100% by Lucien Lagrange.[5] Lagrange is a French-born architect who came to Chicago in 1978 after studying at McGill University and who rose to prominence while working for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill after having been a 1950s high school dropout.[6]

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 Chicago Landmark Carbide & Carbon Building that had originally been designed by Daniel Burnham's sons to host the originators of the Eveready Battery.[7] The firm has renovated Chicago's Union Station and is currently continuing its series of proposals to expand above the Chicago Landmark.[1] Currently, it pursuing the 26-story Union Station Tower,[8] which has been in various planning stages since 2002.[9] 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).[10][11]

The firm was selected in 2005 as the architect of the St. Regis Hotels & Resorts in Bal Harbour, Florida.[12]

It is the architect for the Lincoln Park 2520 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),[13] 535 West End Avenue (New York, New York),[14] River House Condominiums (Grand Rapids, Michigan),[15] and Blue Chip Casino Hotel Tower (Michigan City, Indiana).[16]

The company is described in the real estate industry as one of Chicago's premier residence architects.[17] 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 Lake Michigan outside of Chicago or Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the third tallest building in Metropolitan Chicago outside of Chicago.[18][19] The firm is a notable contributor to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.[20]

  1. ^ a b "Lucien Lagrange Architects". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on December 14, 2006. Retrieved January 18, 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ Corfman, Thomas A. (July 15, 2010). "Architect Lucien Lagrange retiring, firm files Chapter 11". Chicago Real Estate Daily. Crain Communications, Inc. Retrieved February 3, 2011.
  3. ^ "Lucien Lagrange Architects Ltd". Owen Media Partners Inc. Retrieved January 18, 2008.
  4. ^ "The Man With A Plan", Chicago Social, November 2007, Modern Luxury Media, LLC., Chicago, IL, pp. 102-104.
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  6. ^ Donaldson, Jim (November 5, 1997). "Lucien Lagrange". McGill University. Retrieved January 21, 2008.
  7. ^ Weathersby Jr., William. "Hard Rock Hotel". McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Retrieved January 18, 2008.
  8. ^ "Union Station Tower". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on December 14, 2006. Retrieved January 23, 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  9. ^ Finnegan, Tom (August 15, 2002). "News: Chicago Union Station Tower back on track". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on August 21, 2004. Retrieved January 23, 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  10. ^ "One Union Plaza". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on December 14, 2006. Retrieved January 23, 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  11. ^ "Union Station Towers". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on April 10, 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  12. ^ "Related Group, Starwood plan St. Regis in Bal Harbour". American City Business Journals. March 15, 2005.
  13. ^ "Ten East Delaware". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on February 18, 2007. Retrieved January 23, 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  14. ^ "535 West End Avenue". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on February 20, 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  15. ^ "River House Condominiums". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on July 29, 2012. Retrieved January 23, 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  16. ^ "Blue Chip Casino Hotel Tower". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on March 13, 2007. Retrieved January 23, 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  17. ^ "Fordham Co.: Properties". Fordham Company. Retrieved January 23, 2008.
  18. ^ Boniface, Russell. "Midwest Casino Bets on Vegas-style Luxury Hotel". American Institute of Architects. Retrieved January 23, 2008.
  19. ^ "Blue Chip Casino Hotel Tower". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on March 13, 2007. Retrieved January 23, 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  20. ^ "Mayor Daley's Contributions: Lucien LaGrange and Associates Ltd". ChicagoBusiness. Crain Communications, Inc. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved January 18, 2008.