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Originally Posted by vandelay
The LA tower is an obvious homage to Marina City Club in MDR. Back to OBP, it's pointless to whine about the concrete facade. Name a new limestone tower built in Chicago, or anywhere outside of NYC. The real estate market in Chicago isn't at that level yet. Hell, it might not even support one of Stern's lesser contributions. If Chicago's lucky it'll get another Stern.
As for the windows and panels, try and design a better building. An 800 foot concrete tower with regular window placement will end up dull and monotonous.
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That's the issue, you are wrong. Chicago may not have a new limestone tower in the past decade or so, but both NBC Tower and 900 N Michigan are limestone. If they made the numbers work at 900 N Michigan, they could have made them work here.
The only reason this is precast is that Related is cheap as fuck and feels like they can get away with it here in Chicago because "we are bringing real high end design to Chicago".
900 and NBC are Pomo done right. I shouldn't even be comparing Stern to them because that's like comparing a 1975 Lowemburg precast shit stack with MvdR's 860-880 LSD. One is a visionary work that set the bar for 3 decades. The other is a hack job that came 25+ years after the original and even after all that time to perfect the copycatting they still couldn't get it right.
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Note how the windows make what would otherwise be a giant slab vertical, note how the bays taper as it rises, the setbacks here actually make sense, the crown is symmetrical and proportionate to the scale of the building, etc. Now compare that to this goober of a building:
Tries harder to be deco and ends up looking less Deco as a result.