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Originally Posted by J_M_Tungsten
Everything about the new British School is terrible from a design standpoint. Why the elliptical path? Why the blah design? Why the look of a suburban warehouse? The rooftop connection to RC should be as quick of a route from end to end as possible to get the pedestrian off the street and to the Roosevelt street level. I guess it really doesn't matter though. That whole area is a mess. It will always have a massive car presence (thanks to Target, RC, and the new massive shopping structure on Canal). The saving grace of the area would be a major development from Taylor St. south to Roosevelt between Wells and the River. But the roads would be another issue with that...
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Yep, it's turning out every bit as bad as I expected, and actually I think quite possibly worse. Nothing about it makes sense, from the gag-inducing design to the actual program/business plan (as others are pointing out, this could very well turn out to be a flop), to the park on the roof, to the staircase to the overall access issues to Roosevelt level that this clearly fails to address. What the hell was the British School thinking? I'm assuming it was all Structured and VDT pushing for quality at their Halsted location, because it couldn't possibly have been the British School itself - otherwise, how could you go from that to this pile of shit? One day you're working with Joe Valerio, and the next with Joe 'Antunafish' (borrowed!)??