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^^^ I love CNA, I don't get what people's deal is when it comes to color...
     
     
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CNA never gets any love. Even Kamin dislikes the color.

Am i the only person here who actually, affirmatively likes CNA?
no, i definitely LOVE CNA as well, but its bright red color and placement at the "front" of the skyline does make it stick out in a way that no other 600' building in the skyline does (and that's not a bad thing). my point was that this new dorm tower could never come anywhere close to sticking out and drawing attention to itself the way CNA does.
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no, i definitely LOVE CNA as well, but its bright red color and placement at the "front" of the skyline does make it stick out in a way that no other 600' building in the skyline does (and that's not a bad thing). my point was that this new dorm tower could never come anywhere close to sticking out and drawing attention to itself the way CNA does.
That's pretty much exactly why I hate it. It is just a massive fugly red building with all this prominence on the skyline, particularly from Grant Park.
     
     
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That's pretty much exactly why I hate it. It is just a massive fugly red building with all this prominence on the skyline, particularly from Grant Park.
I love the CNA too.... so why is it OK to 'stick out' by being tall (i.e. willis, hancock, etc.) but not by use of color?
     
     
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It is just a massive fugly red building with all this prominence on the skyline,
massive? check

prominent? check

red? double check

fugly? no way, jose. there's not a damn thing i find fugly about that fine structure.
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^^^Agreed, this building is definitely a well known and iconic structure for Chicago. Many people I know outside of this area know it simply as "The Red Building".
     
     
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The only thing I find ugly about CNA is the sign itself that they stuck on there a few years back. A building like that needs no logo—especially not a bad one.
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The only thing I find ugly about CNA is the sign itself that they stuck on there a few years back. A building like that needs no logo—especially not a bad one.
That is a beef of mine as well - not just CNA but Loop building signage in general. Let's all just be thankful that Roosevelt hasn't tried to put its logo on the Auditorium Building tower.

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Anyone have add'l dorm renderings of the view from the South with the Auditorium Building in the foreground?
     
     
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Am i the only person here who actually, affirmatively likes CNA?
no. i do too.
     
     
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Old Posted Mar 19, 2010, 7:55 PM
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That is a beef of mine as well - not just CNA but Loop building signage in general. Let's all just be thankful that Roosevelt hasn't tried to put its logo on the Auditorium Building tower.

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Anyone have add'l dorm renderings of the view from the South with the Auditorium Building in the foreground?
Well I can't totally agree with you there. As a graphic designer, I beleive that succesful intigration of signage and architecture is accomplishable, and many times beneficial. Pru 1 was designed to accomidate at large sign on its south face, it wasn't an afterthought. Would the Drake be the more spectacular from LSD without the awesome neon sign on the roof? Who doesn't love the Santa Fe sign? Some buildings just need signage, unfortunitely with time, many have forgotten the 'art' behind this intigration of signage and building.
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Well I can't totally agree with you there. As a graphic designer, I beleive that succesful intigration of signage and architecture is accomplishable, and many times beneficial. Pru 1 was designed to accomidate at large sign on its south face, it wasn't an afterthought. Would the Drake be the more spectacular from LSD without the awesome neon sign on the roof? Who doesn't love the Santa Fe sign? Some buildings just need signage, unfortunitely with time, many have forgotten the 'art' behind this intigration of signage and building.
Yeah - no, I agree with you 100%. I'm a big fan of signage too, and the examples you cite are all faves of mine. Just not on the Sullivan. It'd have to be handled very delicately (could be very cool though if done well).

My beef is with some of the more mawkish recent additions, like Chase.
     
     
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Just not on the Sullivan. It'd have to be handled very delicately (could be very cool though if done well).
Yeah but I'm pretty sure that can't even happen since the Sullivan is Landmarked and that would be a major visual alteration which would quickly be shut down by the Landmarks commission or whoever controls that stuff.
     
     
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Another cousin of this project from Westsidelife.



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Yeah but I'm pretty sure that can't even happen since the Sullivan is Landmarked and that would be a major visual alteration which would quickly be shut down by the Landmarks commission or whoever controls that stuff.
Yeah - I really meant that just as a hypothetical.
     
     
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I'm all for making the CNA building less visible.
     
     
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That's a dope design for a dorm.
     
     
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Yikes, a bunch of precision work here. You got a facade of a very old building that needs to be stabilized while a building comes down next door. So glad that ugly grey beast is coming down. The new tower is a beautiful replacement IMO.
     
     
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Roosevelt Tower

I don't have a scanner, otherwise I'd do it myself. I just received my Roosevelt alumnus mag today, and it has a bit of info about the forthcoming tower. There are some good renderings there, including one Photoshopped double-page spread showing it in the context of the south Loop skyline from Grant Park. If you're an alum or know someone who is, try to get hold of the current issue and post the pic for all to see.
     
     
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