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Originally Posted by Eveningsong
Never liked it. Looks like a cheap-looking generic tower.
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Agreed. I think it really set us back as a city, architecturally. It looks painfully out-of-place. The ground level, plaza, and meandering path into and around it is garish, sloppy, and mostly a confused mess with no real solid design scheme. It's as if the tower and ground level were each designed separately and without any reference to one another. Where the tower meets both the river and the Wrigley building is where I cringe the most. It's absolutely terrible: completely disconnected design with zero integration or attention giving to its surroundings. It's as if the entire base of the building was designed in a vacuum. Design by committee in the worst way. I honestly could deal with its awkward height and ugly blue glass and stupid spike on top if the base were better. But it unfortunately is a turd from top to bottom.
And then there's the garage. The helix ramp leading into the garage looks like an awkward afterthought that was 'tacked-on' in the final hours before its presentation. The garage itself appears caught between an awkward spot of looking like a garage and concealing itself as such. Either way, it just adds to the shit pile.
I literally hate everything about Trump Tower. I always have. I think it's way too tall for its site, you can see it from fucking everywhere, and it's just absolutely relentless in its post-modern tackiness.
Simply put: I think Adrian Smith is a horrible architect who is stuck in the 90s. After all, the NBC Tower is his shit pile too. His buildings belong in Dallas or Dubai or something, which makes the fact that he's a Chicagoan even more unfortunate.
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