225 W Wacker Drive (building to the left) and 333 W Wacker Drive (building to the right) were both designed by architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates around the 1980’s. When KPF built 333 W Wacker in 1983, the architects hoped that any development across the street would be masonry as a counterpart to the reflective glass of the building. Four years later the firm was commissioned to start designing 225 W Wacker. If you look close at both buildings you will notice that they share similar structural elements including the large round vents near the base of both buildings. 333 W Wacker is the more well know building, being featured in “Ferris Bullers Day Off” and also used in the movie poster for the film “The Truman Show”. Additionally this was the first building built by the architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, and was named #27 on the Chicago Magazine’s list of Top 40 buildings in Chicago.