Judge Orders Property be Given Back to Lender, Officially Sealing the Chicago Spire's Fate

Here at UnBeige, we sound a bit like a broken record when it comes to Santiago Calatrava‘s Chicago Spire. While it’s long been common knowledge that the tower, which was to sit close to Lake Michigan and drastically alter the city’s skyline, has long since been another architectural casualty of the financial fall, after a series of big problems dogging the project, we started calling it officially dead back in August of last year. Then we did it again this May when