CHICAGO | 150 North Riverside | 752 FT | 54 FLOORS - Page 95

SanDiegoGuy · #**1881** Posted **Jul 9, 2016, 9:44 PM**

I like it.

Something different.

HowardL · #**1882** Posted **Jul 9, 2016, 11:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by BVictor1

07/07/16

Such a hot shot. This almost trompe l'oeil perspective has been lost on me as I've walked by at street level. Thanks for capturing it.

ardecila · #**1883** Posted **Jul 10, 2016, 4:15 PM**

^ Yeah, that view is like a special treat for people on boat tours...

J_M_Tungsten · #**1884** Posted **Jul 11, 2016, 1:38 AM**

Tonight

Domer2019 · #**1885** Posted **Jul 11, 2016, 5:19 AM**

^ Until Wolf Point completely blocks it from that angle. Not the worst problem, with all due luck...

harryc · #**1886** Posted **Jul 12, 2016, 2:15 AM**

July 06

Jul 08

SolarWind · #**1887** Posted **Jul 12, 2016, 5:11 AM**

July 11, 2016

BVictor1 · #**1888** Posted **Jul 12, 2016, 12:52 PM**

07/11/16

Zerton · #**1889** Posted **Jul 12, 2016, 8:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by Ned.B

^I'm still not seeing it either. Glass towers in the 1980s were typified by highly reflective mirrored glass in bold colors such as blue, green, or black, emphasized horizontals or no emphasis in either direction (such as your second picture), and mostly flat facades, relying mostly on the particular shapes of the buildings. Think 300 S Riverside.

This building on the other hand, has light blue gray glass with comparatively lower reflectance, strong emphasis on verticals, vertical mullion fins, and a glass fin wall, all of which are distinctly of the 21st century. The only thing sort of evocative of the 80s are the sloped underside of the cantilevers and emphasized mechanical louvers, which do feel a little like the colonnade on the E and W sides of the Thomson Center.

Agree to disagree. To me, this glass couldn't get more 80s (or reflective). And expressing verticality has always been a thing. The angles at the base, granite base, color... the list goes on.

LouisVanDerWright · #**1890** Posted **Jul 12, 2016, 10:23 PM**

I think this is really 70's actually. Modern materials, strong sculptural aesthetic, structural expression, almost brutalist expression of the lobby core. Really I think this thing is quite something on it's own, can't really categorize it because it's a really unique structure (obviously with the exception of the mini me's in Abu Dahbi). Don't really care what you call it, it's cool.

LouisVanDerWright · #**1891** Posted **Jul 12, 2016, 10:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by BVictor1

07/11/16

Missed the significance of this picture, they are really beefing up the mullions and depth of the facade on the base, will this continue the full length of the building???

rlw777 · #**1892** Posted **Jul 13, 2016, 12:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright

Missed the significance of this picture, they are really beefing up the mullions and depth of the facade on the base, will this continue the full length of the building???

Even more to the point of whether this is 80's or 70's or whatever the fins and subsequent texture are a clear indication that this design is not a part of the aforementioned decades.