High-rise Chicago Loop condos, Chicago lofts, skyscrapers, and many other Chicago real estate properties owe a great debt to the architect and urban planner Daniel Hudson Burnham. Without Burnham's resounding influence on architecture, the high-rise loop condos and skyscrapers today would be found wanting and might even have completely different designs. The Chicago skyline, and that of many other cities, would almost be certainly altered, especially when being viewed from high-rise loop condos and other skyscrapers.

Though he designed famous buildings such as the Flatiron Building in New York City and Union Station in Washington D.C., Burnham is best know for being the Director of Works for the World's Columbian Exposition (The World's Fair) in Chicago in 1892. This World's Fair was to be the largest yet in commemoration of the 400-year anniversary of Christopher Columbus's voyage.

Burnham was selected for this task due to making a strong impression with his work on the Masonic Temple Building in Chicago, Illinois. He and his business partner John Root were the architects of this building, one of the first skyscrapers and one building that greatly influenced all the high-rise loop condos and skyscrapers to come after it. At 21 stories and 309 feet tall, the Temple Building was the tallest of its time (surpassing even a few modern high-rise Chicago Loop condos) until it was torn down in 1939.

After Root's death, Burnham and the team of architects under him radically changed his plans for the fairgrounds on the then desolate Jackson Park grounds. They chose a classical revival style and used the color white predominantly, gaining the Fairgrounds the nickname of "The White City." Other features included grand boulevards, classical building facades, and lush, large gardens. These designs were greatly influential and aspects of it can be seen in high-rise Chicago Loop condos and skyscrapers and building all around the world to this day.

With this success, Burnham and his assistant Edward H. Bennet created "The Plan of Chicago" to remake the city into a "Paris on A Prairie." The features of this plan included redesigns for the lakefront and river and that every citizen should be within walking distance of a park. Naturally, these designs can also be seen in modern day high rise Chicago Loop condos, skyscrapers, and other Chicago properties.

The most powerful architect of his day, Burnham also helped shape Cleveland, San Francisco, Washington D.C., and even Manila and Baguio in the Philippines. Other notable commissions in his hometown of Chicago, IL that greatly influenced the shaping of the city into the modern metropolis dominated by high-rise downtown loop condos and skyscrapers include the Union Stock Yard Gate, the Kent House, Rookery Building, the northern half of the Monadnock Building, the Reliance Building, Fisher Building, Heyworth Building, and the Marshall Field and Company Building.

It can be argued that without Burnham that high-rise Chicago Loop condos and skyscrapers and other Chicago real estate properties as well as downtown Chicago itself would be different without his influence. He was quoted as saying, "Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized."

Those words are seen in all the high-rise loop condos and other buildings across the world that he has influenced.