In which the similarities between the Rube and Logan are discussed:
http://www.citylab.com/design/2016/0...itects/484604/

Obama library across the street really would create a nice cultural district on the South Side.

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2016...lopers-bet-big

http://i.imgur.com/P2LJ9kl.png

I was hoping for something denser here with a better parking ratio, but the design is not bad and it's as-of-right, so all the HP NIMBYs will be able to do is bitch and moan.

What's the deal with these brownstones by the hospital? Why haven't they been knocked down?

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/123913890
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/123913891

^Why do you want buildings torn down so badly?

^ The south side needs waaaaay more vacant lots, man

No vacancy
 

Oh, don't worry! The medical center has plans to build up those entire blocks. It will eventually be an extension of the parking garage on the one side and a medical / research building on the other side. I'm just curious why those are the last buildings standing here. There is a story here. No one may know what it is, but there is a story here. It reminds me of that one lone house that stood beside Trump's casino in Atlantic City (or something like that) because the owner refused to sell.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Coking

Developer plans 25 new homes in Woodlawn:

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/reale...ed-in-woodlawn

Great news! Hope it gets built soon.

Obamas choose architect for library:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/o...630-story.html

:cheers: well thats exciting...this building is going to be awesome!

Is construction complete on Vue53? I read it was supposed to be done by July.

Getting pretty close. i am hydrogen posted a spectacular shot on page 221 of the highrise thread. I reccomend taking a look.

Thanks! Great pic.

I normally only look at the 53rd St Forum; guess I'll have to start keeping an eye out elsewhere.

The Nimbys had said Vue53 would destroy the park and block out the sun but it seems to give people in the park something nice to look at.

^ That's because the NIMBYs are mentally retarded.

You can't block out the sun when you are north of the site

Gordon Parks Arts Hall (Valerio Dewalt Train Associates)


Earl Shapiro Hall (Valerio Dewalt Train Associates)


VDT has been kicking ass and taking names. Proud to have them as a client.

City Hyde Park, Harper Court, Vue53, and new dorms - all in one shot. Next up: Solstice!

https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7352/2...df8a7e58_b.jpgA Stop in CHI Town by Andrew Webb Curtis, on Flickr

Great pic. Has ground broken yet on Solstice? Hard for me to tell in the aerial view

No signs of any action. Still waiting on several factors for fall into place.
It is a great photo of my neighborhood!

Trying to imagine what it must have been like in Hyde Park back when it had 100 hotels!!

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohisto...pages/622.html

The Studio Gang website has some photos of the dorm near and after completion:

http://studiogang.com/project/univer...residence-hall

The LASR rennovation:
http://archpaper.com/2016/07/perkins...lery-0-slide-1

Without speaking to anything but the aesthetics, these turned out really great. Even better as a realized thing than the illustrations suggested. Sculptural and handsome and just really nice.

Picture 2 shows the landscaping between the 2 towers, and while I don't think the actual looks exactly like the drawings, it is extensive and doesn't look like there was much VEing going on. Major hardscapeing, an entire grove of trees, etc. And the green roof is in place.

Interesting, I didn't realize the renovation plan was by Perkins-Eastman. I wonder why the article left out the fact that Dwight H. Perkins designed a building on the UofC campus, given that Perkins Eastman was co-founded by his grandson.

Vue53 has posted some pics of the completed facade on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/Vue53/photo...type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/Vue53/photo...type=3&theater

Dwight Perkins designed probably hundreds of schools across the Midwest, and Perkins Eastman does a similar volume of work today. I'm not sure there's anything serendipitous about Perkins Eastman's involvement.

I was mostly commenting on the fact that they listed out many of the architects that designed buildings on campus but left out DHP. I lived in the building Perkins designed and was always disappointed that most people (outside of us architecture fans) have no idea who he is.

http://hpherald.com/2016/07/27/sever...in-full-bloom/

Do tell. Which building?

I notice that the rendering of Solstice on the Park on the Studio Gang website looks different than the picture in the HP Herald. Does this mean anything? Is it just lighting or, as some of you like to pipe up with, has there been some sort of VEing going on?

http://studiogang.com/project/solstice-on-the-park

Thanks!

Obamas choose Jackson Park for Presidential Library. Thought Washington Park had a leg up on the former.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/o...727-story.html

wow, good catch! unfortunately, it looks like Solstice has gone through some very serious and disappointing VE'ing... lost a lot of it's grace, IMO

Unfortunately Solstice seems to have changed from a building with a dazzling facade to more of a Soviet prison-style apartment complex. I hope it looks better than this when built (just as I think Vue53 has surpassed its drawings.)

It will be very close to the Obama Library and should be a high demand, signature building not a VE knockoff.

Hitchcock Hall: http://housing.uchicago.edu/houses_h...itchcock_hall/ (An interesting detail that this page leaves out is that Annie Hitchcock actually helped fund DHP's education at MIT).


That rendering on the Studio Gang page is super new, I had shown the page to someone a week or so ago and it still had the rendering that is shown on the Herald's page. I checked the zoning docs from earlier this year and they still show the old design. I think they would need to file a request to make this level of change to the design, given that Mesa had to file one to change the facade on Vue53, but I could be wrong.

Solstice received a heavy does of VE, but from what I have overheard the owner was not fond of the new look, so I am guessing their will be another iteration.

More pics of North Campus and a discussion of 4D Modeling:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/4d-mo...se-det-nav_art

And a shot of the new quad or commons or whatever they are calling it by North Campus:

https://news.uchicago.edu/sites/defa...seye-toned.jpg

Have to admit I thought Hitchcock was designed by Henry Ives Cobb... So I was surprised to learn it was DHP.

why would they release updated renderings without the owner/developer signing off on it?

It appears the VE pic of Solstice has disappeared from the Studio Gang site.

:shrug: Good question. looks like they might have jumped the gun a bit.

Let's hope that's the last we see of that VE design for Solstice.

Plus, cool pic of North Campus facade:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/really...cdSezf-K3LGM2/

I see Curbed Chicago picked up on the apparent Solstice changes:

http://chicago.curbed.com/2016/7/29/...ce-on-the-park

Challenges of designing and building Eckhardt:

http://chicago.curbed.com/2016/8/17/...esearch-center

In praise of City Hyde Park...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...19-column.html

North Campus landscaping:

http://tgda.net/news/university-of-c...ntial-commons/

UChicago released several new videos and pictures to mark the opening of North Campus:

https://news.uchicago.edu/article/20...ential-commons

North Campus overview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvYubrSs44w

15th Floor Reading Room:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T7fbYB5BRE

Time lapse of construction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjeXlr_qsGE

DNAInfo also had an article:
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2016...orms-at-u-of-c