I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but the the river-front space shown will be public (in fact, it already is, minus for the part under construction). You can go get an overpriced pour-over from Blue Bottle Coffee and drink it on a bench by the river right now.

I don't know what side is the "left side" but all development within 100 feet of the river edge requires a planned development that aligns to everything listed here: https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...es-update.html

Not all riverwalk will look like the section downtown on the main branch.

August 11, 2022

Its easier to see the texture change of the glass here from the ledge on the setback around the 50th and up.

8/15/22

More glass progress on the north face. Won't be long now.

https://i.imgur.com/7U7LQBk.jpg

It looks to stubby ������

When this is done, the 805' 1000M will be the tallest under-construction building in Chicago. Hopefully 400 Lake Shore Drive (875') and Lakeshore East Parcel I (at least 950') will keep the current boom going.

8/11/22

https://i.imgur.com/r9PBV8Q.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/eMhUMxO.jpg

August 16, 2022

Exciting day. Looking forward to seeing how it looks with those vertical lines matching WPE.

Great close up of the larger fins on the top floors as well. Thanks Solar.

will the fins be lit up at night?

Because he's such a chubby boy.

That's the problem with office towers today, they all have to be obese to be attractive to tenants.

It better be (and I think it will) - especially since the setbacks provide convenient places to mount the lighting. Salesforce SF has the entire crown as an LED screen that displays artwork so SalesForce I think is very pro lighting.

https://sf-towertopart.com/

Also the lobby is supposed to have video screens I think (similar to the SF lobby as well.)

See https://www.333wolfpoint.com/gallery/ for pics. I'm really looking forward to this but haven't seen too many details about it.

Salesforce SF video wall https://archinect.com/news/article/1...bscura-digital

Will the fins on the glazing be installed all the way down? or only the upper floors? I'm not too hopeful about the larger ones being illuminated given that east's never were and are very similar, hope to be proved wrong! would love to see them be able to change color and match the rest of the city on special dates or give a little show like the new one atop sears

that's not really a new development in chicago.

the chunky office tower has been the default program in this town since the '50s.

https://images.skyscrapercenter.com/building/ch0084.jpg
source: https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/bui...ial-plaza/2190

Their current placement of the fins matches renders of them only being on the top 10 floors or so. So I'm pretty confident they will not be going lower than that.

WPE is a fully residential building while WPS is fully commercial. There aren't many residential buildings that have lighting programs that I can think of so I don't think it's a good litmus test. Salesforce being a commercial entity will want their name on the building attractively displayed at night. Also this dusk render appears to show it illuminated (https://www.hines.com/properties/sal...-south-chicago), but I'm not sure about the color lighting. But I'd be shocked if it wasn't part of the city's coordinated lighting program given Salesforce's elaborate lighting on their San Francisco tower and the prominent location of this tower here.

Also, does it feel like they sed a fair bit of the setbacks originally planned for the front? looks like 3/4 instead of the 5/6 rendered on the hines site.

https://www.hines.com/properties/sal...-south-chicago

^ I think it's still too early to make that conclusion. The setbacks are pretty subtle even in the renderings so until the glass is up I don't think we can say if the design changed a bit.

Longer than that... the quarter-block office towers from the 1910s and 1920s with light courts were seen as pretty chunky too, especially compared to NYC's towers from that era which were less boxy and usually had more of a wedding cake form (Woolworth, etc).

When NYC did get a chonky Chicago-style tower - the Equitable Building, designed by a Chicago architect - everyone lost their sh*t and they reformed the zoning code to mandate wedding-cake design.

The 1800s actually. The foreign journalists back then often said, “Wow, those are some chonky office buildings.”

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FaeZFP5WQAUsjBS.jpg

William Archer, America To-Day, 1900


Probably predates the skyscraper itself even. In the 1870s, there’s discussion of the unusual size and extent of the warehouses.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Faeca4VXwAAJf_q.jpg

Sir John Leng, America in 1876, 1877

I don't know why, but it warms my heart to know that "lanky" has not only been around a while, but it was worthy of a formal periodical.

Right, the relatively large block size of downtown Chicago has long led to pretty beefy buildings of all heights, but when I was talking about office "towers", I meant buildings over 500' tall (my apologies for not being more clear), and all of chicago's pre-war 500+ footers have some form of tapering massing as they rise.

The Prudential building was really the first "big" office tower in chicago (ie. >500') to completely embrace the MCM aesthetic of the big fat wide box-tower, a very basic and economical form repeated countless times (with different curtain wall dressing) over the past 7 decades.

For any that haven't taken this walk, this is an incredible showcase of the confluence and way to experience this 'new' part of the city. Even better at night.

could have been my eyes deceiving me but it looks like they were testing the crown lighting on the west side of the building they have made quite a bit of progress with the scalloped panels covering the mechanical penthouse... I took a photo on my phone but it came out not great... anyone else see the top tonight around sundown?

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...2a181037_b.jpg

I'm pretty sure that's just the sunset/twilight from the west reflecting on the building.

Anyone know if the Salesforce signage will be on both east and west side of the crown? Or they just allowed one of them?

Column cladding-

https://i.postimg.cc/9FLbKqJw/20220825-135443.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/XNsnJ4LS/20220825-141124.jpg

was at the federal building yesterday, glass almost finished coming from North and this tower is looking good. Let's hope they have LEDs on the crown... Looks massive

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...d9b82cde_h.jpg

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...b4d0ae09_h.jpg

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...4f0c4496_b.jpg

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Would the admins please correct Salesforce Tower's height on the Diagrams page? It should be 850 ft, not 835 ft. Thanks.

FYI a permit was issued for an 8 floor buildout here on Thursday for an estimated cost of $25.35M. Owner on the permit is Salesforce..

"SELF CERT 2019 CBRC: STRUCTURAL PEER REVIEW INCLUDED FIRST TIME TENANT BUILDOUT TO FLOORS 10-17 TO INCLUDE ARCHITECTURAL, MECHANICAL, ELECTRICAL AND PLUMBING AS PER PLANS. TYPE 1A CONSTRUCTION, OCCUPANCY B-BUSINESS"

There's a request section called "Building Requests & Database Corrections" near the bottom of the main forum page. Not sure if the people who update diagrams are reading this thread.

08.24.22
https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/ng/ser...997825/enhance

08.31.22
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Is this tower gonna have an observation deck? if they do, the views facing towards the lake would be crazy

nope

damn missed oppurtunity

Kinda - but not paid. You'd have to find an event to go to (or throw one yourself).

https://www.salesforce.com/news/stor...force-chicago/

/\ what a shot!!!! Anything getting built in blue fenced area?

https://chicagoyimby.com/wp-content/...ing-by-SCB.jpg

https://chicagoyimby.com/2020/12/app...velopment.html

got it, thank you

We have our own mini Hudson Yards in Chicago ;)

Totally. Let's finish it off it off with something big at 130 N Franklin.

That last shot really does reinforce my opinion that this building's best angle is from the North Branch of the river. It has this perfect angle that compliments WPE and has the loop behind it as a coat tail. Love the shot.

CHICAGO | Salesforce Tower | 835 FT | 60 FLOORS
 

After digging around more, I realized that 835 ft is correct. Thus, would the original poster or the admins please correct the height in the thread title? Thanks.

Even at 835 ft, Salesforce Tower is still taller than 100 North Wacker, making it the tallest office-only building completed in Chicago since 1990. See CTBUH's list here: https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/exp...y=&output=list

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fbm8ozqW...jpg&name=large
Credit: John Scalzi

The 835' figure is old and likely outdated.

Midway through construction two floors near the top got height increases adding roughly 15' to the tower.

It's all documented here in this thread somewhere.

The core topped out at 840' according to the construction team at Walsh. Then the additional 10' is the architectural top.

Though they do qualify 'approximately.' And maybe more notably is this is 'Level 61.' Everything else says 60. If anything maybe the change really needs to be from 60 to 61? I'd be curious what the details are about that.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/walsh...791245314-RUdY

https://i.imgur.com/ER1BScb.png

Also via Yimby https://chicagoyimby.com/2022/01/sal...ver-north.html

BY: JACK CRAWFORD 7:45 AM ON JANUARY 12, 2022

Also I found a pretty interesting article about some of the structural design and challenges of the building

https://www.enr.com/articles/54072-h...-tower-chicago

https://www.enr.com/ext/resources/Is...o-drawings.jpg

https://www.enr.com/ext/resources/Is...se-Smaller.jpg

Thanks for the info. Hopefully we will know the exact height eventually. Would be great if it is >850 ft.