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Man, at first when I read about this in an article headline, I thought they were going to tear down the Tribune Tower to build this. My heart was in my throat for few seconds until I scrambled to read further.
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http://www.dudapaine.com/wp-content/...ostBank_02.jpg Smith is a much more talented architect though, and this won't be such a squat building. |
The first thing that came to my mind was Adrian Smith's old unbuilt Dearborn Center proposal from the late '80s.
Said to be inspired by tribune tower, it would have stood 85 floors / 1,135'. https://s18.postimg.org/if111zpt5/14...cfaa46c36c.jpg Source: pintrest |
^Ditto... That popped into my brain as well.
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Massive New Michigan Ave Tower Uncovered and What It Might Look Like. :)
http://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/w...2-1024x452.jpg from www.chicagoarchitecture.org |
I really hope it's not just a slab. I know that's just a generic image to show the envelope of that height. I can't stand the trend of slab supertalls. Chicago is a city of icons, slabby/boxy supertalls are not iconic.
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Also there is a 0% chance that this will be a slab if Adrian Smith is the architect. On that note it's actually amazing how prolific Adrian Smith has become. This corner of town will have three significant designs from his different periods: NBC, Trump and Tribune. How many architects in Chicago have gotten such center stage? How many of them have designed the tallest buildings on Earth in serial for decades? Despite that fact, Smith is almost unknown publicly, he doesn't get the starchitect press, he seems very humble and happy to just keep living the dream cranking out the most impressive structures in human history. We are truly in a golden age for tall buildings and Chicago architects are still on top, literally. Hopefully Smith brings home everything he has learned designing the biggest supertalls and drops a masterpiece on us. For example, every time I look at their website there is something like this: http://smithgill.com/media/images/pr...511019_n58.jpg |
I'm not a fan of that old 80's PoMo Dearborn Center proposal how about something a little more like SHoP's 9 Dekalb in Brooklyn.
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^^ Agreed. 9 Dekalb would be absolutely perfect.
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This sounds interesting and it would be great watching it go up from the Willis Tower Sky Deck (its still the Sears Tower to me and just to show my age I remember when Montgomery Wards was HQed in Chicago as well)..
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Summer time it will be presented to the commission. Hopefully some leaks can occur of the info or pics of it.
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I could build a very rough 3d massing based off of the renderings I saw.
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