Donald Trump's Trump International Hotel & Tower and Kirkland & Ellis LLP's 300 North LaSalle were honored by the Chicago Architecture Foundation on Thursday at the group's annual Patron of the Year awards luncheon.
The coveted honors, given to those who commission buildings, are among the few awards handed out in town that are kept a secret until they're announced from the stage.
This year was no different, as attendees made off-the-cuff bets as to who would win.
The afternoon affair sponsored by Stein Ray & Harris LLP was held at the University Club just off Michigan Avenue and featured a number of high-profile guests, including Michael McCaskey, chairman of the board of the Chicago Bears, and Sunny Fischer, executive director of the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.
The two served on the jury led by famed architect Stanley Tigerman, who drew a crowd of visitors around his table in his first public appearance since being hospitalized for heart-bypass surgery.
"It's good to be out of there," said Mr. Tigerman, whose recent work includes the Holocaust Museum in Skokie.
Other projects honored were the Charles H. Shaw Technology & Learning Center and Richard J. Klarchek Information Commons in the institutional category and the Chicago Cultural Center: Preston Bradley Hall Dome Restoration and Chicago Main Branch Riverwalk in the government category.
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