Hilton Chicago
Hilton Chicago was documented across guest rooms, corridors, and key back-of-house and service areas within an actively operating historic hotel. The scope extended to visible building systems within each space, including electrical devices, communications infrastructure, outlets, switches, and fire protection elements, ensuring both architectural and operational conditions were captured at room scale and across circulation networks.
Scale changes everything
Originally opened as the Stevens Hotel in 1927, Hilton Chicago once held the title of the largest hotel in the world. That scale introduces complexity in both architecture and operations, making accurate existing conditions essential for any future intervention.
Before modern capture tools, projects like this relied on disciplined field coordination and careful planning to ensure reliable outputs across thousands of rooms and systems.
And sometimes, the city adds its own moments. One evening after fieldwork, we crossed the street and saw Buddy Guy step out of his club with a guitar before heading back inside. A reminder that architecture and place always overlap.
Working around a live hotel environment.
Fieldwork was scheduled during the winter slow season, allowing selected floors to be temporarily taken offline while maintaining overall hotel operations.
A complete existing conditions package, from reality capture to usable deliverables.
The project captured both architectural conditions and visible building systems at room level, including electrical, communications, and fire protection elements, creating a consistent record across a highly complex and continuously occupied environment.
The value is not in the scan itself. It is in what your team can do next.
Design-ready deliverables
Measured information is structured into clean Revit and CAD outputs so architects, owners, and developers can move quickly.
Clear communication
Pointknown focuses on clarity. The process stays in the background. The usable result stays front and center.
One source of truth
A single field effort supports visualization, planning, modeling, and documentation—without repeated site visits or fragmented information.
If you are planning, renovating, leasing, or evaluating a building, clear existing conditions matter.
Pointknown helps design teams and property stakeholders move forward with confidence by turning existing buildings into usable, decision-ready information.