CHICAGO | Highrise Projects & Construction, v7

[aaron38]

Originally Posted by harryc

July 26

Photograph request, West End from North Ave at the river. Only caught a glimpse driving over, but it stood out very well and I instantly knew what it was.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9107...4!8i8192?hl=en

[gebs]

Originally Posted by 10023

Lucien Lagrange built apartments for people who think the Cheesecake Factory is a nice restaurant.

That may be, but based purely on anecdotal evidence (and from working in several architectural firms over the years), units in buildings designed by him sell. Whether it's Park Hyatt, the Waldorf Astoria, or 2550 Lakeview, there's always been demand for his style.

[the urban politician]

^ And Cheesecake Factory is always full as well

[aaron38]

Originally Posted by Randomguy34

Renderings of 315 N. May - 1112 W. Carroll from design committee meeting

https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/.../315_n_may.pdf

That is a great PDF. Answered every question I had.

[Randomguy34]

I'm still obsessed with how much bulk Fulton Market will add over the coming years. The view from the Metra will be astonishing

[Handro]

Originally Posted by Randomguy34

I'm still obsessed with how much bulk Fulton Market will add over the coming years. The view from the Metra will be astonishing

I'm also obsessed. A big, bustling mid-to-high rise neighborhood of various uses and with a lot of relatively good architecture (and some bad...) was built in like 10 years, and is still growing significantly.

[harryc]

Originally Posted by aaron38

Photograph request, West End from North Ave at the river. Only caught a glimpse driving over, but it stood out very well and I instantly knew what it was.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9107...4!8i8192?hl=en

You can see 1400 W Randolph from there ? need to revisit it - I love that bridge, easy parking on the SW corner great view of the loop from the S side, and the less urban view from the N side.

https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_...t=North_bridge

[chicubs111]

sucks another lot potentially gone to something subpar ...

City Council Approves RIU Plaza Hotel Chicago At 150 E Ontario Street In Streeterville



https://chicagoyimby.com/2021/08/cit...eterville.html

[SamInTheLoop]

^ My lord.



It might always fall through.

Imagine being an actual paid professional architect and consciously choosing to include those white columns at the base.

[rivernorthlurker]

Originally Posted by SamInTheLoop

^ My lord.



It might always fall through.

Imagine being an actual paid professional architect and consciously choosing to include those white columns at the base.

omg. This better be made out of limestone or something.

[harryc]

July 26

Coming down




Odgen gentrified

[10023]

Originally Posted by gebs

That may be, but based purely on anecdotal evidence (and from working in several architectural firms over the years), units in buildings designed by him sell. Whether it's Park Hyatt, the Waldorf Astoria, or 2550 Lakeview, there's always been demand for his style.

And McDonald’s is the most popular “restaurant” on earth.

Even at higher price points, popularity doesn’t mean quality because most people have poor taste.

[archguy]

Originally Posted by rivernorthlurker

omg. This better be made out of limestone or something.

Unfortunately... it's going to be architectural cast concrete - aka fake limestone

[archguy]

Originally Posted by Randomguy34

I'm still obsessed with how much bulk Fulton Market will add over the coming years. The view from the Metra will be astonishing

After following and reporting on so many West Loop projects, I'm still so excited and impressed by what's going on over there.

There's always things to gripe about like the WLDG and how it would be nice for some developers to push the height a little more, or to get rid of parking podiums, but it is certainly exciting to visualize what the area will look like in roughly 5 or less years.

I think the corridor of properties between the Metra tracks and Carroll Avenue will be the most consistent new-construction tower corridor in the entire West Loop - a great thing for canyonization and density, maybe not such a great thing for light and urban variety

[harryc]

July 26

[harryc]

July 26

[the urban politician]

Originally Posted by chicubs111

sucks another lot potentially gone to something subpar ...

City Council Approves RIU Plaza Hotel Chicago At 150 E Ontario Street In Streeterville



https://chicagoyimby.com/2021/08/cit...eterville.html

Looks decent to me for a not so prominent site.

Besides, if this is “subpar” for you than what is “par”? 15 more years of a vacant lot while proposal after proposal gets approved and goes nowhere (meanwhile our hair grows grayer)

[chicubs111]

and here we go with the rationalization side of the forum who always says things like "ehh its better than a surface parking lot" or "it looks ok for infill". Sorry but for a lot that is a 100ft off north michigan avenue i would expect better... the last two proposals were so much better and added some height you would think would of been wanted for this location. Again similar to the wolf point discussion in sense these are safe conservative proposals for there locations which always seem to result in mediocre design at best.

[SteelMonkey]

[QUOTE=harryc;9359298]July 26

Coming down


The last pics you will see (thanks HC ) as those silos are officially gone as of early last week.

[rivernorthlurker]

Via Barry Butler tweet: https://twitter.com/barrybutler9/sta...126551040?s=20