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Originally Posted by vandelay
But people from Chicago should face up to the fact that Lagrange is a hometown hack, and one that received a lot of high profile and successful commissions in their city.
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thank you for making up more of your stories.
when have chicagoans on this forum, generally speaking, ever denied that lagrange is a hack who has greatly shamed our city's architectural legacy with his unrelenting hackery?
if you had been reading chicago threads on this forum for the past 17 years like i have, you'd know it's one of the most repeatedly beaten dead horses this forum has ever known.
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Originally Posted by vandelay
Between Stern and Lagrange, they're better off here with Stern.
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no argument there, stern is a far more capable architect than lagrange could ever hope to be. but the issue here is that there is very loud cadre of chicago forumers who have a bad habit of obnoxiously repeating themselves in expressing their contempt for
ANY-FUCKING-THING that might even hint at PoMo. they utterly detest lagrange, and they hate stern too.
as for me, i'm cautiously meh on this project. it certainly won't be a great building, but i think it has the potential to maybe be ok. execution and VE issues will of course be pivotal. we'll see......
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Originally Posted by vandelay
And I disagree that a 850' tower can't be filler
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an 850' tall building certainly
can be filler if the context around it is all supertall towers, but that is not the context of this project. in streeterville, this 850' tower will be the tallest building by a decent margin for several blocks in all directions. it will stand out. it will be noticed. for better or worse.