Steam Workshop::Honker's Chicago Assets

Created by honker

This building is the newest gem of Chicago's downtown. Its location on the west bank of the river demands its unusual shape - the building's base only occupies about a third of the lot and expands upward, as it is perched above active train tracks. In a re...

340 On The Park

Created by honker

340 On The Park is a newer addition to Chicago's skyline, filling in the gap next to the Aon Center and the BCBS building in Chicago's mega-luxurious "New East Side" overlooking Millenium Park. With upscale facilities, amenities including a large winter ga...

900 North Michigan

Created by honker

900 North Michigan, located on Chicago's Magnificent Mile, is the city's eighth tallest building. It clocks in at 871 feet, keeping pace with its neighbors, Water Tower Place and the John Hancock Center. This art deco revival, clad in tan marble and intric...

Blue Cross Blue Shield

Created by honker

With neighbors like the Aon Center, the Prudential buildings, and 340 on the Park, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower stands at the forefront of Chicago's skyline. It was originally only 33 stories tall, but after about ten years its owners built another 24 ...

Blue Cross Blue Shield scale

Created by honker

1:1.5 scale version of the Chicago skyscraper. Original is here - https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1131786631 RICO ready - 150 offices ...

Bryn Mawr Bungalow (1x4, 2x4)

Created by honker

While Chicago is known for its broad and striking skyline, it owes just as much of its unique character to its thousands of historic bungalows. Narrow and long, these single family homes can be found in rows throughout neighborhoods at every corner of the ...

Clark Street Mixed Use

Created by honker

***RETAIL SPACE AVAILABLE*** **X-CELLENT LOCATION** **2x4 UNITS OF PRIMO SQUARE FOOTAGE** Your small business will be the talk of the neighborhood with this high visibility great location!!! Many business come before and do very well, make very money!!! Ol...

Clark Street Mixed Use (2x4 low res growable)

Created by honker

This is a low residential growable version of the RICO asset found here https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1106458497 It is my first growable. There may be some kinks to work out. I made it level 1 so you can see it as soon as people sta...

Department of Archives

Created by honker

F-UCK ICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a 9x12 RICO-ready office building based on one in downtown Chicago. It's over a century old, one of the oldest in the city. This is an example of the Chicago school style of architecture, with...

Eco Office

Created by honker

Does your start-up need a new home? Is your data collecting company growing at an unwieldy rate? Are you an aspiring corporate overlord? Well look now further, because the Eco Office is the spot for you. Weighing in at 40 meters tall with a 12x8 footprint,...

Eco Office 2 (RICO)

Created by honker

Here we go again, with another boxy glass office building. Inspired by the mild success of Eco Office, this one is slimmer and taller. 5x9 units, 70 meters tall, all offices, all glass, all the time. Based off another office highrise in downtown Chicago. 1...

Esplanade Apartments 2

Created by honker

Second tower of the two. First is here - https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=935788902 Created in the 1950s by prolific architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, these apartments are historic to Chicago's downtown. They directly over look Lake ...

Esplanade Apartments Chicago

Created by honker

Created in the 1950s by prolific architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, these apartments are historic to Chicago's downtown. They directly over look Lake Michigan, located on the inner drive right by the Hancock Tower. This building is in a set of four simila...

Gateway Center

Created by honker

At 320 feet, the Gateway Center is nowhere near the tallest building in Chicago, but it is certainly one of the most reflective. Located at 300 South Riverside Plaza, this glossy black office building directly overlooks the river. The sheen of its tinted w...

Grant Thornton Tower

Created by honker

Completed in the early 1990s, Grant Thornton Tower (also referred to as the Title & Trust Center) is an iconic piece of Chicago's skyline. Its crown of three bright lanterns carries it to 756 feet in height (230m), allowing it to compete with the city's ot...

Grant Thornton Tower (1:1.5)

Created by honker

Scaled version of the Chicago skyscraper. Original found here - https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=911774747...

Harbor Point

Created by honker

Harbor Point was the first condominium building in Chicago. It towers over Lake Shore Drive, Chicago's coastal highway, as one of the oldest entries to the "New East Side" district of dense luxury residences. Its shape is 3 hooks arranged in a triangle, co...

Jones Luxury Condos (RICO ready)

Created by honker

This tower of luxury downtown residencies is based on the Jones Chicago building in the city's River North neighborhood. 25 stories of ultra-bourgie lifestyles await inside this blue and white glass frame. Ploppable RICO ready, High Density Residential (40...

Kemper Corporation (RICO)

Created by honker

The Kemper Building stands at a prime spot on the Chicago riverfront in the downtown Loop area. It went up in the 1960s to house the Kemper Life Insurance company, and was at the time the tallest marble-clad building in the city. For perspective, it's now ...

Lakeshore Apartments

Created by honker

This glass and steel high rise is based on the twin condo buildings on Chicago's downtown lakefront. 860 & 880 Lake Shore Drive were completed in 1951 and have since been designated as landmarks to the city. They offer cozy living in the ritzy neighborhood...

Law School

Created by honker

E pluribus skylinicus! Climb the stairs of Justice as you crush your peers in this cutthroat school of all things legal. Will your citizens pursue benevolent careers as public defenders, or become corporate tools? Or will they simply settle for the first p...

Legacy Tower

Created by honker

Based on the Legacy at Millenium Park in downtown, this 72-story skyscraper is among the newest of Chicago's glistening high rises. It stands at the eastern edge of the Loop, both providing perfect views for its residents and making it a centerpiece of the...

Merchandise Mart

Created by honker

Merchandise Mart was, at one point, the largest building in the world. This art deco megalith was built in the 1930s as a retail destination for Chicago's booming downtown, and remains a bustling landmark for shopping, riverside views, and built-in connect...

Merchandise Mart (1:1.5)

Created by honker

Scale version of the Chicago landmark. Original found here - https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=913159264...

Monroe Center

Created by honker

That's it, I'm done. I'm done making buildings that don't have stairs somewhere on the outside. Normally people consider stairs an interior feature, but look at this thing. I mean those suckers are huge. Where are they going? To the roof? What are we going...

Not FBI Office (RICO)

Created by honker

This building is a completely normal office building. It is 11 units wide, 7 units deep, and roughly 70 meters tall. It is RICO-ready, with 75 office workers who perform regular office duties for their corporations. The government does not have anything to...

One Magnificent Mile

Created by honker

One Mag Mile stands at the very north end of Chicago's Magnificent Mile district of luxury retail and hotels. While its measly 57 floors leave it dwarfed by its next door neighbor, the Hancock Tower, this building's hexagonal structure and pink granite cla...

One Prudential Plaza

Created by honker

One Prudential is at the forefront of Chicago's downtown skyline. Often accompanied in pictures by its "big brother" Two Prudential, this blue and biege landmark welcomes visitors with the bright logo of its insurance company namesake. Its huge mast (a thi...

Presidential Towers

Created by honker

The Presidential Towers is a set of four identical skyscrapers in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood downtown. At 49 stories, these tan concrete hulks are staggered to give their residents prime views of the city - which gives the buildings themselves an imp...

Research Hospital

Created by honker

Your cims will be injuring themselves on purpose just to score a bed at this brand new Research Hospital. With its unique cross shape, this hospital offers prime views of the city while the steady drip of morphine melts away all the worries and woes of mod...

River North Lofts (3 assets)

Created by honker

This set of 3 loft buildings was designed as a low-impact complement to the other great loft style assets on the workshop. Included are: River North Lofts (3x4) River North Lofts 2 (2x3) River North Lofts 3 (4x4) They each have color variations in the reds...

River Point

Created by honker

River Point is one of the newest entries to Chicago's downtown - at the time of writing this, the building doesn't even appear on Google maps yet. It opened this year as an ultra-luxury office high rise just to the west of the Loop. This building was const...

River Point (1:1.5 scale)

Created by honker

This is the scaled down version of the Chicago asset River Point (original found here https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=957486986). Ploppable RICO ready (office)...

Sandburg Village (RICO ready)

Created by honker

Sanburg Village is a series of upscale condos in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood near downtown. There are seven towers total, and this building is specifically based on one of them, the Dickinson House. This "urban renewal" project occupies about three b...

Sharkfin Logistics

Created by honker

In today's fast paced world, it's important to make a splash. Stand out from the rest of the fish in the sea with this RICO-ready office building. Wall to wall aqua-tinted windows and high ceilings help get your employees' energy flowing and their blood pu...

Sheridan Tower

Created by honker

This is based on the Park Tower Condominium building in Edgewater, Chicago. It's one of the tallest buildings outside downtown. I ogle at it from the train every time I go into the city. It's a fairly standard curtain wall modernist thing, but the rounded ...

Sheridan Tower scale

Created by honker

1:1.5 scale version of the Chicago highrise found here - https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1134019955...

Social Security Center

Created by honker

It's an ominous government office building, because I couldn't find many of those on the workshop. Based mostly on the Harold Washington Social Security building in downtown Chicago. Scale - 1:1 Footprint - 11x11 Tris - 1500 Textures (2048x2048) - d,s,i,n ...

Social Security Center RICO

Created by honker

This is just a RICO version of an older asset that I've uploaded by request. The original is here https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=922729811 Ploppable RICO - office, 50 workers...

The Franklin Center

Created by honker

At 1,007 feet (307m), the Franklin Center is Chicago's 5th tallest building. Located in the heart of downtown's Loop neighborhood at 227 West Monroe, this supertall tower hosts 60 floors of AT&T headquarters and a slew of other offices. Scale - 1:1 Tris - ...

Water Tower Place

Created by honker

NEW VERSION HERE: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1302317236 At a stately 859 feet (262m), Water Tower Place is a massive entry to Chicago's skyline. This stark marble tower is the next door neighbor to the John Hancock Center and ho...

Waterview Tower

Created by honker

Formally called OneEleven, this luxury residential tower went up on Chicago's riverfront in 2014 after a period of stagnation left it as a 26-story husk for some months. The completed tower rises to 60 stories (190m), and its blocky glass structure perfect...

Berwyn Bungalow (1x4, 2x4)

Created by honker

While Chicago is known for its broad and striking skyline, it owes just as much of its unique character to its thousands of historic bungalows. Narrow and long, these single family homes can be found in rows throughout neighborhoods at every corner of the ...

Riverbend Tower (333 Wacker)

Created by honker

This is based on 333 Wacker, the office tower at the northwest corner of Chicago's Loop, where the outer street bends - hence the sweeping arc shape and reflective glass to compliment the meeting of the branches of the Chicago River. While its outer shape ...

Monroe Plaza

Created by honker

The spiritual successor to the Monroe Center, Monroe Plaza is a mixed use skyscraper with a sleek black facade, sloped roofs, and a lobby sheathed in glass rings. 26 stories of prime real estate fit for shopping sprees and corporate headquarters alike. Tri...

Harbor Point scale

Created by honker

Uploaded by request. Original is here - https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1135008742...

LaSalle National Bank

Created by honker

This art deco colossus is one of Chicago's oldest and boldest. It stands 45 stories tall, on the site of the world's very first skyscraper, the Home Life Insurance building in the heart of Chicago's Loop. It went up in 1934 as the Field Building, and was t...

Lake Point Tower

Created by honker

Despite there already being a fine Lake Point Tower asset on the workshop, after some prodding I decided to make an updated version. Lake Point Tower is a true jewel of the Chicago skyline, its three rounded lobes offering residents unobstructed views of t...

Lake Point Plaza

Created by honker

This is the plaza version of my Lake Point Tower asset from Chicago. Lake Point Tower is a jewel of the Chicago skyline, its three rounded lobes offering residents unobstructed views of the lake and the city at every angle. It is the only building east of ...

123 Wacker

Created by honker

At a mere 30 stories, 123 North Wacker is a modest edition to the Chicago Loop. Its architectural style keeps it quiet while differentiating it from both the gleaming glass obelisks and the art deco artifacts that are its surroundings. It came up in the 19...

United Building

Created by honker

The United Building (77 West Wacker, aka RR Donnelley Building) is a riverfront skyscraper on the north edge of the Chicago Loop. It was built in the early 90s by postmodern architect Ricardo Bofill. Its 50-floor ribcage of glazed marble wraps around a gri...

Mid-Continental Plaza

Created by honker

Since the early 1970s this hulking internationalist monstrosity has towered over the relics of Michigan Avenue in Chicago. No more art deco cornices, no more moulding and flourish, it's time for the dreadful corporate monolith, a void of non-aesthetic vert...

Telecomm Tower

Created by honker

This is based off a network server tower in Chicago. In-game it acts as a power source because, as we all know, the internet is a utility just like electricity. No cims or businesses profit off of it, it's just paid for with taxes. So even though it provid...

Hotel Comrade

Created by honker

This is based off the Hotel Conrad on Chicago's Magnificent Mile, but I like the sound of Hotel Comrade better. This is a high-density commercial building where the workers are in charge. Which is fitting because in all the Cities Skylines I've played, I h...

Carbide and Carbon Building

Created by honker

The Carbide & Carbon Building is a landmark on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Its dark green terracotta facade and golf-leafed crown make it look like a champagne bottle. Many taller buildings have shot up around it since it was built in 1929, but this 37-sto...

LaSalle Tower (1:1.5)

Created by honker

Scaled down version of LaSalle Tower....

LaSalle Tower

Created by honker

This is based on the US Bank Building in Chicago on LaSalle Street downtown. It is a 40-story postmodern office tower with a gabled roof and dark pink limestone facade. It's from the 80s, so everybody who works in this building is required to wear a side p...

Icebox Industries

Created by honker

I made this because it's been really cold where I live and I like these boxy suburban offices. It's based on 555 West Monroe in Chicago. Thanks Tris - 2.9k / 90 Textures - 1024² x 128² 9 x 5 x 54m RICO ready - 65 offices consider following me on Twitter co...

Riverside (Redux)

Created by honker

This is a completely reworked version of 150 North Riverside, which I released some months ago. I have, I think, greatly improved since then and I am starting to revisit older assets to give them the treatment they deserve. I will update the original works...

Stupid Condos

Created by honker

Is your neighborhood a little too "working class?" Are your property values a little too "urban?" Don't you want to live among royalty, among aristocracy, among the gentry? Fear not, because the Stupid Condos are here to launch those real estate prices int...

Chicago Greystones

Created by honker

There are about 30,000 greystones remaining in Chicago. Some of them look like this. This is a set of four different 1x4 growable houses, each with four color variations - that's like 16 assets! Tris - ~2.2k / ~100 each Textures - 512² / 128² 1 x 4 low res...

One Museum Park

Created by honker

Plaza is here! At 62 stories, One Museum Park is the tallest building south of the Loop in Chicago. It stands at the southern corner of the city's expansive "front yard," Grant Park, overlooking a sunken rail corridor and welcoming newcomers with its futur...

One Museum Park Plaza

Created by honker

This is the plaza at the base of One Museum Park (tower not included in this asset). It functions as a park. It fits at a 120 degree angle intersection. Feel free to use Move It and any other common mod to make this look the way you like - the world is you...

Joffrey Tower

Created by honker

Based on the Joffrey Tower building in the Chicago Loop, a 32-story condo building and home of the Joffrey Ballet. Tris - 8.3k / 100 Textures - 1024x2048 / 256² 7 x 4 x 127m RICO ready - 140 homes consider following me on Twitter or Instagram consider a sm...

The Montgomery

Created by honker

This is based on a 28-story building in Chicago's Near North Side neighborhood (just northwest of the Loop, a mile west of the Hancock Center). This international style condo building, which started life in the 1970s as the headquarters of the Montgomery W...

Armitage Courtyard Apartments

Created by honker

The courtyard apartment - Chicago's workhorse. Based on a building very similar to the one that yours truly may or may not live in on the North Side. Tris - 9k / 200 Textures 1024² / 256² (color variations in earth tones) 4 x 6 x 12m RICO ready - 24 high d...

Stupid Duplexes

Created by honker

Is your neighborhood a little too "working class?" Are your property values a little too "urban?" Don't you want to live among royalty, among aristocracy, among the gentry? Fear not, because the Stupid Duplexes are here! Now you can finally one-up your cow...

111 South Wacker

Created by honker

111 South Wacker is a 51-story glass office tower in Chicago's Loop. Just two doors down from the Sears (Willis) Tower, this modernist monolith went up in the mid 2000s at the same time as its nextdoor neighbor, the Hyatt Center (not on the workshop yet), ...

Chicago Corner Flats

Created by honker

This is a 3x4 low density housing asset based on the many 3-story brick corner buildings throughout Chicago's neighborhoods. Made circa 1920, these are a staple of the metropolitan area and pair nicely with the Two Flat, Greystone, Bungalows, and Six Flat....

Little Chicago Bungalows

Created by honker

This is a set of 3 Bungalows in the style of the tens of thousands of modest working class homes around Chicago, particularly Berwyn and Cicero, but found at all corners of the metropolitan area. Low impact but made with a lot of love and care. Three 1x4 L...

Chicago Porches

Created by honker

4 Chicago-style back porches, 2 for a 2-story building and 2 for a 3-story building....

Chicago Two Flats (1x4 & 1x3 residential growable)

Created by honker

This is a set of 10 assets total, including 4 unique designs of Chicago-style two flat homes (a 1x4 version and a 1x3 version of each). The 1x4 version have garages, the 1x3 don't. Low poly but highly detailed. The other 2 assets are porches. Low density r...

NEMA Chicago

Created by honker

NEMA Chicago by honker 7x10 ploppable RICO, 800 high density homes Roughly 9k tris, 3 sub buildings, 2048x1024 textures (diffuse, illumination, alpha, normal, specular)...

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