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hawainpanda · #**1101** Posted **Sep 18, 2015, 3:23 AM**

I have to say...never liked the design i itially...but really like the new renders

123fakestreet · #**1102** Posted **Sep 18, 2015, 2:23 PM**

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SamInTheLoop · #**1103** Posted **Sep 18, 2015, 3:28 PM**

^ Very much agreed.....what is this, amateur hour? This is certainly not the price point at which you skimp on ceiling heights......10' is where they should start..........

SamInTheLoop · #**1104** Posted **Sep 18, 2015, 3:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jibba

Those interiors are incredibly underwhelming. And not sophisticated in the least. A pastiche of already stale trends. They should have worked with Getty's or PYR, both local and with much better taste.

But the building looks pretty good otherwise.

Yes, yes, yes on the interiors......I was shocked at how utterly uninspired these first renderings are......I think a lot of the disappointment here - whether it's too-low ceiling heights, interiors, etc surely must reflect Magellan's input, as opposed to Dalian Wanda Group's...........Magellan I don't think 'gets' the super-luxury segment of the market, which, after all is what this tower by all accounts is really going for.....

wierdaaron · #**1105** Posted **Sep 18, 2015, 4:46 PM**

People will put up with incredibly short ceilings to live in a signature building (Aqua, Hancock) or for luxe finishings (Gold Coast).

SamInTheLoop · #**1106** Posted **Sep 18, 2015, 5:12 PM**

^ Way different price point here than Aqua or Hancock........look at the few very high end condos we've seen come out of the ground this cycle - State/Elm, No 9 W, etc: I'm sure they have at least 10' ceilings.....

Ryanrule · #**1107** Posted **Sep 18, 2015, 5:33 PM**

i find many many condos in chicago to be overpriced for what you get.
what happens is the price points get moved up.
average gets a luxury price. luxury gets an ultra lux price. ultra lux isnt even built.

pilsenarch · #**1108** Posted **Sep 18, 2015, 7:39 PM**

the reduction in floor-to-floor heights was one of the VE moves to tackle the 900M over-budget number... those frustums might not have much meaning, but they are expensive...

BrandonJXN · #**1109** Posted **Sep 26, 2015, 4:18 PM**

http://commondms.digitalinsightresea...looking-up.jpg

Kngkyle · #**1110** Posted **Sep 26, 2015, 4:36 PM**

^

Yes please.

munchymunch · #**1111** Posted **Sep 26, 2015, 4:46 PM**

When are sales supposed to open again?

BVictor1 · #**1112** Posted **Sep 26, 2015, 5:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by munchymunch

When are sales supposed to open again?

Supposedly October 1st...

camdoodlebop · #**1113** Posted **Sep 26, 2015, 9:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by BrandonJXN

http://commondms.digitalinsightresea...looking-up.jpg

Is this a new render??

CHI -21c · #**1114** Posted **Sep 26, 2015, 9:55 PM**

How much did it cost to hire Studio Gang?

Magellan should have gone with an economical architect if this is the end result.
Are the high efficiency windows gone?

The chewed-up "novel form" was a mistake. The shiny glass and horizontal lines are the only interest.

NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR CHICAGO RIVER ARCHITECTURE FOR YEARS TO COME.

jc5680 · #**1115** Posted **Sep 27, 2015, 12:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by CHI -21c

How much did it cost to hire Studio Gang?

Magellan should have gone with an economical architect if this is the end result.
Are the high efficiency windows gone?

The chewed-up "novel form" was a mistake. The shiny glass and horizontal lines are the only interest.

NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR CHICAGO RIVER ARCHITECTURE FOR YEARS TO COME.

N830MH · #**1116** Posted **Sep 27, 2015, 6:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by pilsenarch

the reduction in floor-to-floor heights was one of the VE moves to tackle the 900M over-budget number... those frustums might not have much meaning, but they are expensive...

Yeah, way too extremely expensive. You cannot afford of it. Why they don't find a real cheap one, but not too expensive.

Mr Downtown · #**1117** Posted **Sep 27, 2015, 3:20 PM**

Are we to interpret from this new rendering that all exterior glass will be installed perpendicular to the ground? I'm surprised that would make very much difference in cost. Or has that been the scheme all along, but we hadn't seen renderings detailed enough to notice?

scalziand · #**1118** Posted **Sep 28, 2015, 2:50 AM**

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Originally Posted by CHI -21c

Are the high efficiency windows gone?

If you look closely at the new renders, Gang is still playing around with the window tints like at Aqua. If you divide the floors into groups of three, each group has it's own tint. There's about 4 different tints it looks like.

pilsenarch · #**1119** Posted **Sep 28, 2015, 3:56 AM**

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Originally Posted by Mr Downtown

Are we to interpret from this new rendering that all exterior glass will be installed perpendicular to the ground? I'm surprised that would make very much difference in cost. Or has that been the scheme all along, but we hadn't seen renderings detailed enough to notice?

AFAIK, all the glass is NOT perpendicular to the ground, but more astoundingly, all of the glass is tilted upward, toward the sky.... (!)

BTW, the rendering just posted ^ depicts a pretty inexplicable shadow line or lack thereof for all the 'sloping inward' portions of the building....

Notyrview · #**1120** Posted **Sep 28, 2015, 12:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by scalziand

If you look closely at the new renders, Gang is still playing around with the window tints like at Aqua. If you divide the floors into groups of three, each group has it's own tint. There's about 4 different tints it looks like.

That's really amazing. It's like an at-dusk effect.