Ok, so this is slightly off 53rd St., but a new hotel for Hyde Park! Rising from the ashes of the old condo project. Also Jeanne Gang.:

http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150...tel-apartments

^Oh yeah!!!

^Sweet!

There is so much potential in Hyde Park for urban/dense projects east of the Metra tracks. It's time to kill all of the remaining parking lots!

Great to see the that have heartbeat again!

Any updates on City Hyde Park? I thought that one was already U/C.

^ City Hyde Park is most definitely under construction, and already several floors above ground.

Pictures anybody???

I'm unfortunately on a business trip to London at the moment, but the base is done and the first 1-2 floors of the residential tower have been poured. I can try to snap a few pictures once I'm back next week if no one else has taken some by then.

^^I'll be in Hyde Park Saturday morning, I'll take pics then..unless someone beats me to it :D

Addendum: I didn't make it to Hyde Park this weekend, both with a flat tire and the snow-mess, it just didn't happen, I'm sorry *hangs head in shame*

Anyone ever get down to City Hyde Park?

http://i.imgur.com/NXsKfcYl.jpg

Managed to snap this with my phone while waiting for the bus this morning. Full size is here: http://imgur.com/NXsKfcY If I have time this weekend I'll see if I can pull out my dSLR and take some better ones.

On its way and looking good! Thanks for the pic.

what project is this again?

Oh man this is gonna be dope...

City Hyde Park by J. Gang.

Hyde Park Apartment Recap
 

So, to recap, Hyde Park, after a lack of new apartment construction for about 30 years, could see as many as four buildings come online in the next few years:

1) City Hyde Park
2) Vue53
3) Solstice on the Park
4) Harper Court, Phase 2 Residential Tower

Maybe...

Look what I saw this afternoon:
http://i.imgur.com/jXTuK1pl.jpg

:fireworks:

Good. Been waiting on this one.

Vue53
 

I know this was discussed sometime a while back, but which iteration is it?

http://assets.dnainfo.com/generated/...jpg/larger.jpg
OR
http://www.mesadevelopmentllc.com/images/vue_0122.jpg

^the cheaper one (on the bottom)

What, in your opinion makes it cheaper?

Frankly, I think the bottom (and most current design) looks better than the older version on top.

well, it's not an opinion... it was value-engineered... maybe I should have said the 'least expensive'

Really? Wasn't aware of that - was it primarily a material spec issue? I guess it's just hard to tell from the two renderings in that for me, the more current version seems a little more streamlined, but the devil's in the details...

I double this

Appellate Court Rules in Favor of Vue53

http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150...inst-neighbors

http://chicago.curbed.com/archives/2...-to-dig-in.php

:uhh:

Sounds like a thinly veiled threat...

^ Now that the ants have scurried away, lets let progress proceed

Some of this isn't new but we haven't had to many photos of Harper Court. I didn't realize how close Vue53 and City Hyde Park were to Harper Court. Both those developments will be huge for the area.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7627/...2c62aee7_z.jpgChicago projects and Construction. by bretgray1, on Flickr

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7650/...3c57b89d_z.jpgChicago projects and Construction. by bretgray1, on Flickr


I believe this is the studio gang residence halls

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7645/...bb4b41bb_z.jpgChicago projects and Construction. by bretgray1, on Flickr

How Hyde Park Got Its Groove Back
The Promontory is booking some of the hottest gigs in town.

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Ma...s-Groove-Back/

Listing for Vue53 retail space:

https://www.realmassive.com/us/il/ch...02175271419904

04/24/15

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a5...D720/ry%3D480/

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a5...D720/ry%3D480/

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a5...D720/ry%3D480/

now that's ^ a great Gang building...

had no idea it was that far along

Yes because horizontally undulating "weaving" geometric facades are significantly less "arbitrary" than vertically undulating "weaving" facades... :rolleyes:

seriously? you don't see the difference? the balconies and the accompanying poured-in-place concrete shear walls/columns are a direct result of the structural solution and a desire to sculpt/separate the balconies... I don't know if Jeanne has any other absurd rationalization, but the basis of the form generation is quite clear...:koko:

And that's different from a "structural solution" designed to create 8 corners instead of 4 with multiple exciting viewing angles from those corners how? The goal with all of her buildings from the beginning has been to create awesome, extremely marketable, living spaces. Just because this one is tilted on it's side instead of vertical doesn't mean they are any different. It would have been much more economical here to simply have a normal structural solution and then have cantilevered triangles extending from it to create the balconies. It would have looked more or less the same, but Gang is doing the sheer slabs instead because it is "cooler" not because it is not possible to achieve the same thing with a boring box of building.

this is so tiresome, Lou, read my earlier posts of the Wanda project and all of your issues are addressed... clearly you are not an architect...

U of C dorms on 55th

04/30/15
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http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a5...D720/ry%3D480/

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a5...D720/ry%3D480/

There's a construction trailer on the Vue53 site as of Wednesday.

And as of tonight there is a section of glass on City Hyde Park's east face. :)

Was at the Promontory Sunday night for a show, that is a great space and we had a great time there. Was very impressed with Hyde Park. Except for going to the Museum of S&I, I've never just hung out in HP before.

The host of the show starting off saying "If you've never been to Hyde Park before, you're late". Yep, sorry about that.

http://i.imgur.com/bGtDS2il.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/bGtDS2i.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ZaEwTGNl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ZaEwTGN.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/k45ZsPFl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/k45ZsPF.jpg

I've been using this button a lot lately: :slob::slob::slob:

I hope this becomes a common scenario with other people from across town! (I wouldn't mind hanging out there more often myself, but I am in California.)

I'm not sure what officially counts as U/C, but digging has begun on the Vue53 site as of Friday.

Right now the site would be in a 'site prep' mode. We normally don't declare structures under construction until caissons are being drilled or piles are being driven.


City Hyde Park 05/13/15

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a5...D720/ry%3D480/

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a5...D720/ry%3D480/

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a5...D720/ry%3D480/

Right on cue:

http://i.imgur.com/QyciO3zl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/QyciO3z.jpg

Looks like Michels Construction, who did the caissons at River Point, will be handling the job here.

Hell yes!

How many real estate cycles until there is continuous development between the S Loop and Hyde Park? Sam wanna take crack at it?