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500 West Madison Street, Chicago, IL

Corporate photography at Accenture Tower

Forty two floors built over Ogilvie Transportation Center, where a large part of the West Loop arrives every morning. Start at the top of the commute and people walk up into the session instead of crossing the Loop to reach it.

Accenture Tower is the 42 story, 588 foot building at 500 West Madison Street in the West Loop, and it sits directly atop Ogilvie Transportation Center, the Metra terminal that brings commuters in from the western and northern suburbs. It took the Accenture name on July 10, 2019. The transit position is the defining practical fact about working here. People who commute by train walk up into the building rather than across the Loop from another station, which makes early morning slots realistic in a way they are not in most downtown towers, and it makes a suburban colleague coming in for the day a short ride instead of a drive.

Accenture keeps its Chicago office in the tower that carries its name, which sets the tone for the building as a professional services address. Beyond that the tenancy is the multi tenant mix a Class A West Loop tower holds rather than one company's campus, so a program here can involve more than one organization on different floors. The consulting and professional services register tends to want portraits that read current and consistent across a large headcount.

The Metra terminal below is the thing to schedule around. An early start catches people as they arrive, before the first meeting block takes the day, and it means a colleague riding in from the suburbs can be photographed and back at a desk by mid morning. Building management sets the dock hours, the freight access and any certificate of insurance requirement, and a tower over an active rail terminal has its own service routing, so ask early. The kit moves on one cart to a conference room on your floor.

We photograph on site, in your own office. If your team is in this building, the notes below are what the day looks like. Nothing here is a claim to a past session in it, and no tenant named is a client unless it says so elsewhere on this site.

Corporate portrait on a studio backdrop, the standard a session at Accenture Tower would be held to
Corporate portrait from the same studio session
Corporate portrait from the same studio session
Corporate portrait from the same studio session
Corporate portrait from the same studio session
Corporate portrait from the same studio session

Sample work, photographed at other clients' offices rather than in this building. It is the standard a session here would be held to.

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Floors
42 stories
Height
588 feet
Renamed
Accenture Tower, July 10, 2019
Transit
Built atop Ogilvie Transportation Center, Metra
Anchor
Accenture Chicago office
Location
500 West Madison Street, West Loop

Working in Accenture Tower

The practical side of a shoot in this building, so the day runs on schedule.

Start early

The Metra terminal is directly below, so people arrive at the building rather than crossing to it. A start at the top of the commute catches the most people with the least disruption to the day.

Suburban colleagues

A team member riding in from the western or northern suburbs steps off the train into the building. For a distributed Chicago organization this is the easiest downtown address to gather people at for a single session.

Dock and access

A tower built over an active rail terminal routes service its own way. Confirm the dock window, the certificate of insurance and the freight elevator with building management the week before rather than on arrival.

Space needed

A conference room of about eighty square feet with an outlet is enough, and a room with a window wall is the first choice. We meter the glass on arrival and balance the studio light to it.

Schedule

Forty to sixty people is a full day at a civil pace. Professional services rosters run long, and a list past that splits over two dates with the setup and the standard held identical on both.

Accenture Tower questions

What teams in this building usually ask first.

Can we run a session before the workday starts?
Yes, and this is the building where that works best, because the Metra terminal below delivers people to the door. Tell us the earliest slot the building allows and we will build the schedule from it.
Can people come in from our suburban offices for the day?
Yes. Ogilvie is underneath the building, so a colleague on a western or northern line arrives without a car. Group them into one block and the whole thing takes a morning.
Do we need anything from building management?
A dock window, a freight elevator time and usually a certificate of insurance. Your office manager will know the contact, and we send the paperwork once we have it.
How far ahead should we book?
Book three or four weeks out and most dates are open. Send the one you have in mind and you will hear back within one business day.

Your team is in Accenture Tower?

Tell me the headcount, the floor and the dates. A proposal follows a short conversation, and questions are answered within one business day.