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Originally Posted by aaron38
I have to believe that the change to remove the stilts and the height increase to 600' are related. The engineering is already difficult and more mass? Also a point I haven't seen brought up, the rendering of the stilts has them very clean and slender. Nowhere are the joints the size of an SUV, really aren't any joints at all. Which means the design wouldn't be elegant as shown.
So did they take the spend from the stilts and put it towards more floors? Better ROI. And from my point, I'd rather have more skyline impact than stilts that as I said aren't that visible due to the Grant Park trees.
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from the DNA info article that rlw77 just posted, it appears that the design the developer presented at last night's meeting still included the stilts, so.......... height increase
AND stilt retainage, win-win!