CHICAGO | Highrise Projects & Construction, v7 - Page 381

UPChicago · #**7601** Posted **May 4, 2017, 2:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by sentinel

^^^ Am I missing something? Isn't that just a model of the Mila? Confused...

Mila, is on the right(west).

XIII · #**7602** Posted **May 4, 2017, 2:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by sentinel

^^^ Am I missing something? Isn't that just a model of the Mila? Confused...

Mila is south of the hard rock. This looked somewhat similar, but its situated on the sterling bay site.

BVictor1 · #**7603** Posted **May 4, 2017, 3:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by sentinel

^^^ Am I missing something? Isn't that just a model of the Mila? Confused...

MILA is south of Carbide.

harryc · #**7604** Posted **May 4, 2017, 3:16 PM**

Hoping the alley keeps them from totally blocking the Chicago Motor Club

I would love to have this across the alley - at eye level.

And of course .... (From 200 N Mich - MiLa )

sentinel · #**7605** Posted **May 4, 2017, 3:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by UPChicago

Mila, is on the right(west).

Ahh yes, total dumb brainfart on me - thanks for helping clear the cobwebs

BrandonJXN · #**7606** Posted **May 4, 2017, 3:31 PM**

I want a unit at MiLa just for those views of C&C. Gorgeous.

I have a question. I remember reading a while back that there was plans to build a tall, thin tower on Michigan and Randolph abutting Millennium Park Plaza. Is that still a thing or am I wrong? I could've sworn though I saw something here regarding that.

SamInTheLoop · #**7607** Posted **May 4, 2017, 3:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by sox102

When I first looked at the drawings, I thought it was an exact replica of 200 NMA. Same architect....Same cheap exterior skin...

What in the world are you talking about? bKL's facades are definitely not cheap-looking, and I feel confident in assuming not cheap in actual $$$.......they do beautiful facades (MILA, for example, has a gorgeously sublime skin) and one of the few local big high-rise residential designers that actually regularly still makes curtain wall - as opposed to window wall - work....

As far as I'm concerned, their only high profile local 'miss' thus far has been Exhibit.....

KWILLSKYLINE · #**7608** Posted **May 4, 2017, 4:11 PM**

Harry, Amazing shots of the Carbide. detail that I probaly would have never noticed. But didnt they just do an exterior renovation of C and C? Or was that just a quick powerwash a few years back. Those gold artforms look like like they could use a good buff/repaint along with some of those cracks. But of course, in age is beauty.

sox102 · #**7609** Posted **May 4, 2017, 4:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by SamInTheLoop

What in the world are you talking about? bKL's facades are definitely not cheap-looking, and I feel confident in assuming not cheap in actual $$$.......they do beautiful facades (MILA, for example, has a gorgeously sublime skin) and one of the few local big high-rise residential designers that actually regularly still makes curtain wall - as opposed to window wall - work....

As far as I'm concerned, their only high profile local 'miss' thus far has been Exhibit.....

Cheap as in Chinese product.

BVictor1 · #**7610** Posted **May 4, 2017, 5:38 PM**

https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/...evised-by-scb/

With a New Owner, Proposed North & Clark High Rise Being Revised by SCB

harryc · #**7611** Posted **May 4, 2017, 5:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by KWILLSKYLINE

Harry, Amazing shots of the Carbide. detail that I probaly would have never noticed. But didnt they just do an exterior renovation of C and C? Or was that just a quick powerwash a few years back. Those gold artforms look like like they could use a good buff/repaint along with some of those cracks. But of course, in age is beauty.

The photos are from Dec of 2015 - the views from MiLa are really spectacular.

The Lurker · #**7612** Posted **May 4, 2017, 6:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by i_am_hydrogen

Big apartment tower planned south of the Chicago River on Michigan Avenue

Two well-known Chicago developers and a Chinese investor plan a big apartment tower on a once-drab stretch of Michigan Avenue that recently has sprung to life with a wave of real estate developments.

Chicago-based Sterling Bay and Magellan Development Group are drawing up plans for a tall apartment tower at 300 N. Michigan Ave., where a four-story building would be demolished, according to sources...

The exact size of the project is unknown. It could be similar to the 41-story Mila apartment building a block south, which Chicago developer John Buck completed last year....

http://www.chicagotribune.com/busine...03-column.html

Anything taller than 35 or 40 floors will have a significant impact in this view East down the river from 4/22. It would rise right behind that new Hilton Garden Inn

Rizzo · #**7613** Posted **May 4, 2017, 6:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by The Lurker

Anything taller than 35 or 40 floors will have a significant impact in this view East down the river from 4/22. It would rise right behind that new Hilton Garden Inn

I was kind of hoping for something at least 60 stories for this very reason. Create some nice punctuation in the skyline from this view. Much like you see Aqua in the view.

Notyrview · #**7614** Posted **May 4, 2017, 6:33 PM**

yeah that would be sick

Randomguy34 · #**7615** Posted **May 4, 2017, 6:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by BVictor1

https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/...evised-by-scb/

With a New Owner, Proposed North & Clark High Rise Being Revised by SCB

Here's hoping we don't get something half as ugly as the previous proposal

Randomguy34 · #**7616** Posted **May 4, 2017, 8:12 PM**

In other news, the CMH redevelopment finally broke ground

Rahm, Developers Break Ground On Lincoln Common
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2017...lincoln-common

BuildThemTaller · #**7617** Posted **May 4, 2017, 9:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by Randomguy34

In other news, the CMH redevelopment finally broke ground

Rahm, Developers Break Ground On Lincoln Common
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2017...lincoln-common

This is exciting to see get underway. It's been a loooooooooooooooong process and to the detriment of the community. How many businesses along Lincoln have gone under after the thousands of employees from Childrens Memorial left? How many millions of dollars in property fees was the newly-named Lurie's Childrens Hospital forced to pay while the property sat empty, awaiting approval. What a waste.

I do think and hope this turns out better than New City at North/Clyborn/Halsted. here is more density, less car-centric design, and it's a good mix of smaller and taller buildings.

chicubs111 · #**7618** Posted **May 4, 2017, 11:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Hayward

I was kind of hoping for something at least 60 stories for this very reason. Create some nice punctuation in the skyline from this view. Much like you see Aqua in the view.

I def was hoping for minimum the same thing...why isnt that we seems to get so conservative with height on prime spots in the city?..i fell like 10 years ago we would of been proposing something in the 700ft range here.. are not the views in demand on the higher floors..cant see why wouldn't want to go higher than that cluster of 450 to 550ft in that area..

rlw777 · #**7619** Posted **May 5, 2017, 1:52 AM**

^ The developer most certainly would like to build taller in that location but if I remember correctly with MILA there was push back on anything taller than Carbon & Carbide suggesting taller buildings would take away from some of the historic architecture.

chicubs111 · #**7620** Posted **May 5, 2017, 2:37 AM**

^ I vaguely remember that now too...its funny how people think that a building that is taller will somehow deter from historic architecture next to nearby buildings ... people are just so afraid of change ...what makes Chicago great is the ability to push the envelope with new architecture ...mixing old buildings next to new buildings is what makes it interesting!..the only standard we should push is Quality and cutting edge design!