Great angle, Harry. Perfectly shows where four MEGA columns will soon be.

June 25

Looks like ventilation for underground parking

I have been thinking more about the two potential heights, and came to the conclusion that the official height will almost certainly be 813 ft. This is because if it were 835 ft, this would be the tallest all-office tower constructed in Chicago since 1990, in which case the developer and/or Salesforce would surely be heavily promoting this fact. But instead, the "tallest purely office tower since 1990" that everyone is raving about is the 814 ft (some say 815 ft) 110 N Wacker.

I hope I am wrong!

I think it's been confirmed that 813' refers to the main entrance and 835' is the riverwalk. I'm assuming 835' will be the official. It's what the CTBUH says but I think they actually get their info from here so who knows...

Yep I already knew about that.

I was about to correct you on this, believing that CTBUH measures from the main entrance. But when I was searching for text to quote, I realized CTBUH had changed their criterion! Relevant sentences from https://www.ctbuh.org/about/history-...tall-buildings :

"On September 15, 2009 a sub-group of the CTBUH Height Committee held a meeting in Chicago, specifically to discuss the shortcomings of the existing criteria in response to the ground conditions at both Trump International Hotel & Tower, Chicago and the Burj Dubai. All four CTBUH height categories were currently worded: "Height is measured from the sidewalk level outside the main entrance to…" but this is problematic as the world of tall buildings is increasingly witnessing (as in the case of both Burj Dubai and Trump), multiple significant pedestrian entrances at differing levels. As a result of that meeting, the full height committee passed the changes in wording to: "Height is measured from the level of the lowest, open-air, pedestrian entrance to…". The height committee felt this offers the protection from buildings including sub-grade basements, car parking, etc. in their height figure, while allowing buildings such as the Burj Dubai to be not penalized for having a lower but above-grade entrance which may not be considered "main" but allows people to enter and exit the building at that point nonetheless."

I apologize for being almost 11 years behind!

Due to this change, 835 ft should indeed be Salesforce Chicago's official height, making it the tallest all-office tower built in this city since 1990 because it's officially taller than 110 N Wacker. It's possible that even the developer and Salesforce aren't aware of CTBUH's definition change, so they are not advertising this.

Unfortunately, Tribune Tower's lower entrance is not open-air, so its official height is still 1422 ft.

The next height to pay attention to is Lakeshore East Parcel I.

July 2

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CASE closed
 

July 13

On the level
Chicago | Sales Force Tower by Harry Carmichael, on Flickr

Block and tackle
Chicago | Sales Force Tower by Harry Carmichael, on Flickr

Pine-ing for the past
Chicago | Sales Force Tower by Harry Carmichael, on Flickr

Chicago | Sales Force Tower by Harry Carmichael, on Flickr

Chicago | Sales Force Tower by Harry Carmichael, on Flickr
Will you be allowed to launch-land at the point ?


I suspect this is where the pit will get deeper, boards will be inserted between the I-Beams to make a retention wall, after the beams are trimmed down.
Chicago | Sales Force Tower by Harry Carmichael, on Flickr

Chicago | Sales Force Tower by Harry Carmichael, on Flickr

Working river
Chicago | Sales Force Tower by Harry Carmichael, on Flickr

I see the sculpture-install there

many more photos in General Development.

thanks, just saw

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^^^Awesome pictures!

I'd like to see the stone breakwater replaced with something more polished.

great shots

seems like this will primarily be barge approach for equipment given the street access? They've got almost no room there now

July 20





Pretty sure this is where everything will come through - there has been no indication of dredging out the point.




July 23

Thanks Harry - terrific views and pics! You can see how extensive the foundation work is - and get the 36 mos

Looks like they kinda grew their property a couple feet with those shoreline rocks. Doesn't even continue the existing arc of land line. oops. Or rather, wtf? Just saying.

/\ There's suppose to be an even bigger lip/overhang than even the walkway! see page 22 for more pics!

Still dont know why we cant fountains along the riverwalk. This would have been perfect. Aside from Centenial fountain we have none. Or a waterfall effect would be nice.