Love shall prevail!:banana:

Tribune is reporting sources saying United is moving in

Are you serious? I mean you have a smily, but I can't tell which part is a joke or not.

Posting while drunk should be a punishable offence :rolleyes:

. . .

united airlines is going to occupy 450,000 square feet of willis tower.

Unless it's in the drunken thread I suppose:drunk:


I wonder if that's enough to get the naming rights?

Now that UAL officially made the move. Damn I would much have perfered United Tower.... I am sure UAL will take on more space than Willis without looking into the details of each transaction.

I'm all for architecture being symbolic, sculptural, iconic, etc. But this hotel proposal seems one of many others as a standard to look like the assortment of objects you find in my medicine cabinet.

I'm okay with this proposal, but easily bored by it. The design seems rather predictable and I don't think it plays well with the Sears Tower for being on the same block. I'm not saying the hotel shouldn't be completly different from Sears, but the juxtaposition of both structures from either street level or above should be memorable. Think about this historic water tower or the church near JHC and how many people photograph these two structures against one another. In short, I guess I was expecting something a bit more original and appealing from Adrian Smith.

Wow, said more than I wanted to. :)

^If anything, I like how the design is classy yet subdued - it doesn't draw attention to itself by being either too pretty or too ugly. It's a well-done contextual building - just the type of thing you'd rather have rising next to a landmark.

stupid idea to put a hotel...looks crammed and awkward.
the building is nice though

I wonder if United moving there gives a little boost to the hotel plan (business travelers etc)

I'm pretty sure that the original plan for the Sears Tower included a hotel at this location, so I don't see the problem. The Sears Tower was extremely modern when built; this hotel will be extremely modern when built.

Hmm...not bad!

model located in the Santa Fe building lobby, adjacent to the massive, recently installed Chicago central plan model
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2563/...a3c6ee36_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2435/...8d178a96_b.jpg
some images of the downtown model
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3524/...248a7f41_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2461/...64388ae6_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2604/...cd28fc77_b.jpg

I really hope this sweet building gets built. Its just so futuristic looking.

Were there ever any renderings released of what Willis Tower would look like if painted silver. I'm curious to see what it would look like.

^^ Oops... looks like a tornado hit Sears' Franklin St portico.

A sexy tornado! :D
To answer your question Rail, I didn't see any renderings of the the re-vamped Willis Tower paintjob.

^^^ There was one where some guy at the Tribune or something used photoshop paintbucket to just paint it silver, but it wasn't official.

Edit:

Here it is:

http://media1.suntimes.com/multimedi...0.imageContent
suntimes.com

Its from the Sun-Times, not Tribune.

A silver re-clad is the only change I could get behind.