This one is becoming very visible from street level at different areas in the south loop. A welcome addition

It's a beautiful day for a crane jump. They are adding 8 sections to the crane today, you can watch from the Field Museum Earthcam. They will add the sections at a pace of around 1 per hour. If any of you photographers are in the area, might be worth stopping by!

Shots like these make me realize how much better integrated the park could be if the train tracks were covered south to Roosevelt. That, and capping the Kennedy, are my two pipe dream requests.

1000 s michigan would be welcome as well

Is the "McCormick Place Busway" that runs alongside the tracks actually used much?

Converting that busway and the barren land between the busway and the tracks into part of Grant Park would markedly diminish the eyesore impact of the railway area.

Its not exactly all that much cheaper to just convert the bus way to park and leave the tracks exposed. It will still be a huge multi million dollar job, and if you are trying to get that much cash committed, might as well pitch the plan for covering the entire gaping scar.

And to answer your question, the bus way isn't used all that frequently, but it is used enough by people of means and clout that it won't be going anywhere anytime soon.

I count ~18 more floors to go. This will probably top out by the end of summer, maybe before that.

IIRC July

4/8/2018 - Crane Jump
 

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^^ Sweet set

It really towers (hah, pun) over Essex now. Will this be the final crane jump for this project?

^No, there will be one more jump. The top of the crane right now is roughly the top of the building. Five more sections need to be added to the crane in the final jump.

From today. . .

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Is 607 ft still the official height for this? I thought I remember BVictor saying this was probably going to be around 620 ft.

April 19, 2018

^ What project is that at the very bottom of that last picture with a crane onsite?

The new Columbia student center

There are at least twelve recently completed or under-construction buildings in that shot that didn't exist five years ago. South Loop rises fast.

:slob:

really bulking up, with 1000m still to go

^ Add in the GP2 site, and its looking like we will get a very nice South Loop cluster

After the crane jump, I can now see it standing out well above the neighboring buildings in the skyline. If that's at the final height of the building, it'll provide a nice bridge between the Loop and those towers on Roosevelt.

Now imagine OGP 2 and 1000M... I get chills just thinking about it.

The south facing offices in the Standard Oil Building are going to have better views in the near future :tup:

April 17

Hmmmmmm... those last few pictures make me like the building a lot less right now. I'm refraining judgement until fully glassed up and after it gets a nice window wash but... idk... something seems very off from the street view

*wrong thread*

4/22/2018 - clear glass?
 

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April 29 - couple new angles of One Essex

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April 30, 2018

^ Great set, Solar. I wonder what they're installing at the Ebony Jet bldg. Mechanical equipment is my guess.

Re Essex; I like the little bit of flare with the window mullions at the setback. Hope they incorporate more of that on another level towards the top.

^Take a look at the rendering on the 1st page. This detail occurs 2 more times. I agree the detail looks sharp!

They're taking stuff out—including part of the north wall—for residential conversion.

Yeah, the detail on this one is really good. It doesn't take that much to make a glass box a little more dynamic. It would have been nice to see those stilts in the original rendering but at least they didn't VE out the fins and mullions. I really lurve mullions.

Coming out nicely. I like the vibrant nature of it.

5/2/2018 - storm
 

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What epic shots there

Awesome

5/3/2018 - Fog
 

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AWESOME shots of the fog!

Those pics are just filthy! Thanks Le Baron :cheers:

Sick shots, Le Baron!

damn

Le Baron, please never lose access to that vantage! :)

Chi-town, Chi-town :slob:

Le Baron - sweet jesus those are some amazing photos... :cheers:

Great pics!

I am aware of this building’s history, but man is it ugly.

And before Steely and others jump all over me, I actually do like well-done Brutalism. This ain’t it.

This is an ugly angle though, most of the picture is dominated by the ugly party wall.

It's not a pretty building, but the street facing facade isn't *too* bad. There's certainly much worse out there, brutalist or otherwise.

That said, we really need to get rid of the last two or three remaining lots on Boul Mich. Having them linger around is just plain embarrassing.