Coppia Tower: 19 Story Mixed Use Development Completes in Chicago’s West Loop
Coppia Tower Chicago, a 19 story residential development , has opened on Aberdeen Street in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood. The tower contains 298 apartments and occupies a newly developed site at the southern terminus of Aberdeen Street. It orients east-west with its primary entrance facing north toward the district’s commercial core.
Design Concept
Coppia Tower’s north and south façades employ a geometric approach that divides the mass into two interlocking volumes. A stepped, interstitial recess clad in contrasting glass separates these geometries vertically. This creates a visual break in the elevation. Floor-to-ceiling glazing defines the residential units at Coppia Tower Chicago. These range from studios to three-bedroom configurations. Two penthouse levels occupy the uppermost floors. The architectural design received an American Architecture Award 2025 from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design.
Program and Amenities
The building includes ground-level retail space and parking within a podium structure. The fourth floor functions as the main amenity level. It is positioned above the podium to access southern exposure and outdoor terracing. Amenity programming includes a swimming pool, outdoor bar, cabanas, grilling stations, and fireplace areas on the deck level. These connect to interior fitness, lounge, and club spaces with kitchen facilities.
Ground-level amenities at Coppia Tower Chicago comprise a 2,200 square foot game room with bar and golf simulator. There is also a 5,000 square foot co working facility. Additional features include a dog park with grooming area, 24 hour concierge, and bicycle storage. Contemporary art installations are distributed throughout common areas.
Urban Context
The project anchors the southern edge of Aberdeen Street’s recent extension into the West Loop. This is a district that has transitioned from industrial use to mixed use development over the past two decades. Coppia Tower Chicago’s placement and orientation respond to the street grid and existing pedestrian patterns in the neighborhood. The area has seen significant residential construction activity in recent years.
The residential mix at Coppia Tower spans multiple unit types. Floor to-ceiling glass is a standard feature across all apartments. The amenity programming dedicates approximately 7,200 square feet to recreational and co-working functions at ground level. This is in addition to the fourth floor outdoor and fitness facilities.
Architectural Snapshot: The interstitial recess that separates the tower’s two volumes measures approximately 3 feet in depth at its shallowest point. It expands to 8 feet at the stepped transitions. This dimensional strategy was not published in the official project documentation.
✦ ArchUp Editorial Insight
This piece documents a completed residential tower in Chicago’s West Loop with methodical attention to program distribution and façade composition. The text avoids typical developer rhetoric no luxury or iconic. Instead, it catalogs amenities and spatial arrangements like filing an inventory. The geometric interstitial recess is described with unusual specificity. Yet the article never interrogates why two interlocking volumes were necessary. Does this formal gesture respond to anything beyond aesthetic preference? The Architectural Snapshot offers unpublished dimensional data. This is a clever editorial move that distinguishes reportage from press release. Still, the writing remains curiously passive about the building’s urban role. Anchoring a street terminus in a district with aggressive residential conversion deserves more than one sentence on existing pedestrian patterns. One wonders: in a decade, will this project read as architecture? Or simply as high end real estate packaging with a geometry problem?
