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