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Old Posted Mar 22, 2023, 2:11 AM
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Wait they are building more towers in this area?
Here's the site plan. Sub Area D has been built. Sub Area E is under construction. The rest are future development.

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Here's a colorized version I made of the PD site plan:

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Old Posted Mar 22, 2023, 2:15 AM
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The top of the building drives me crazy. It's really sad they didn't put more effort to blend the top with the rest of the building. It's a really ugly stump.
I'm starting to appreciate how incomprehensible this building's design is. I no longer see this as something ugly, rather something ominous and perplexing. People hundreds of years from now will be walking along the river, staring at this building, and thinking to themselves, "Why the hell does this building exist?" People will question if an architect even designed this building, because there's no way an architect could possibly design a building with such an absurd appearance.

It'll be Chicago's version of the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Old Posted Mar 22, 2023, 4:12 PM
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Like others have said, it's really striking how drastically the developers changed directions on this. The original renderings of the complex had a cohesive, if kind of uninspired, theme of white buildings with horizontal ribbons of glass. This is... certainly not that. Interested to see what the rest of the towers will end up looking like. I just hope the final complex won't end up looking like an incoherent mishmash.

It's certainly better-looking in person than in photos. I just have a long-standing irrational gripe against the style of offsetting the windows in this fashion. As far as that trend goes, I think this building does it better than most. Better than NYC's Alta Long Island City or 300 Ashland... or Detroit's The Exchange... or even Chicago's 1611 W. Division (Hope I'm not blaspheming!)... or... I could keep going but I think I've been enough of a sourpuss. Long story short, this building is fine.
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Old Posted Mar 22, 2023, 4:34 PM
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Hopefully whatever they build at the north end is much better and blocks the view of this turd.
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Old Posted Mar 22, 2023, 10:18 PM
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Old Posted Mar 23, 2023, 3:45 AM
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Damn, CBOT could use some love (a nice powerwashing)
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Old Posted Apr 3, 2023, 12:23 AM
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I was looking for something on ChiStreetWork and found this:

WEI PROJECT 58225299 CONSISTS OF CONDUCTING THIRTEEN SOIL BORINGS ADVANCED TO TERMINATION DEPTHS OF APPROXIMATELY 100 FEET BELOW GROUND SURFACE WITHIN THE EMPTY LOT AREA TO CLASSIFY SOIL CHARACTERISTICS FOR FUTURE DESIGN OF SITE ENHANCEMENTS. AN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, IR-120194, WAS PROCESSED AND A SUBSEQUENT INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE/CONFIRM THE LOCATIONS OF UNDERGROUND FREIGHT TUNNELS LOCATED ON THE SITE. EACH BORING WILL BE A NOMINAL 8-INCH DIAMETER AND BACKFILLED UPON COMPLETION. APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF THE JOBSITE IS BOUNDED BY THE CHICAGO RIVER TO THE WEST, WEST HARRISON STREET TO THE NORTH, SOUTH WELLS STREET TO THE EAST AND POLK STREET TO THE SOUTH.
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Old Posted Apr 3, 2023, 2:21 AM
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I was looking for something on ChiStreetWork and found this:

WEI PROJECT 58225299 CONSISTS OF CONDUCTING THIRTEEN SOIL BORINGS ADVANCED TO TERMINATION DEPTHS OF APPROXIMATELY 100 FEET BELOW GROUND SURFACE WITHIN THE EMPTY LOT AREA TO CLASSIFY SOIL CHARACTERISTICS FOR FUTURE DESIGN OF SITE ENHANCEMENTS. AN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, IR-120194, WAS PROCESSED AND A SUBSEQUENT INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE/CONFIRM THE LOCATIONS OF UNDERGROUND FREIGHT TUNNELS LOCATED ON THE SITE. EACH BORING WILL BE A NOMINAL 8-INCH DIAMETER AND BACKFILLED UPON COMPLETION. APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF THE JOBSITE IS BOUNDED BY THE CHICAGO RIVER TO THE WEST, WEST HARRISON STREET TO THE NORTH, SOUTH WELLS STREET TO THE EAST AND POLK STREET TO THE SOUTH.
Interesting... Preliminary steps for the next building. Confirm the tunnel locations and then grout it. I hope they do a better job concealing the garage for the next tower.
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kind of menacing looking down franklin (yesterday)
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Old Posted Apr 4, 2023, 1:23 AM
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The top of the building makes my eyes suffer
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Old Posted Apr 27, 2023, 3:37 AM
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Old Posted Apr 27, 2023, 12:58 PM
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The top of the building makes my eyes suffer
Apparently so does the bottom...
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Old Posted May 15, 2023, 2:46 AM
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Old Posted May 15, 2023, 12:12 PM
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Definitely not a fan of how this one turned out......
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Old Posted May 15, 2023, 3:41 PM
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I like it enough. Positive is that it's a big brawny building that uses all of it's available footprint. The facade is like a new age version of a black Mies. Negative - the base is not good but at least the podium lies under and not adjacent to the tower.
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Old Posted May 16, 2023, 3:38 PM
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I don't know. I appreciate that it's different, but the randomized facade looks like a low-resolution computer screen whose pixels are trying their hardest, especially at a distance. Hope future developments offer something better.
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I don't know. I appreciate that it's different, but the randomized facade looks like a low-resolution computer screen whose pixels are trying their hardest, especially at a distance. Hope future developments offer something better.
The architect forgot to turn on anti-aliasing?
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Old Posted May 16, 2023, 5:32 PM
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According to the website apartment reservations, first available date for move-ins is May 26. Seems they have less than two weeks to complete a majority of the public space work.
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Old Posted May 16, 2023, 5:53 PM
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what I am having trouble understanding is why those big black lines are placed where they are anyway. the are indeed random and therefore just blocking out space that would have otherwise been vision glass?
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Old Posted May 16, 2023, 6:36 PM
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what I am having trouble understanding is why those big black lines are placed where they are anyway. the are indeed random and therefore just blocking out space that would have otherwise been vision glass?
It's just the location of the vision glass floor to floor, in that the plan layouts may not differ much at all, just that some floors have vision glass probably 2' (+/-) over from floors below or above.
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