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Originally Posted by the urban politician
^ Damn Ardecila, you've taken a strong anti-height turn these days. Did you recently have a nightmare about falling out of a tall building or something?
Anyhow, I agree but I will say that this site deserves something bold and prominent, and that should hopefully be delivered by the south tower
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I'd much rather see better development than taller development - better architecture, more amenities for the community (plazas/transit/etc), less parking. I'm really impressed by this new design. The numerical height of the building could not matter less to me, I'm interested in how it works on that site. And this new design puts a dramatic exclamation point on an important downtown site.
Tall buildings are wonderful, I just don't get a boner when a building crosses some "magical" 1000' threshold. River Point is extremely prominent on the skyline and it's only 730'. This building will be 30% taller than that even, it will dominate the view from the West Loop. You won't see it from the lakefront, but it's not near the lakefront, so that's not a reasonable expectation.
Speaking of the West Loop - I'm totally fine with the increasing trend of height there. Buildings in the 10-12 story range seem to create the most pleasant streetscapes, and previously developers were only putting up 4-5 story buildings, so I love all these new Sterling Bay, etc proposals. That proposal on Ogden is just so strangely tall when there is literally zero residential within a 3 block radius of that site...