CHICAGO | Highrise Projects & Construction, v7

[Notyrview]

The base is cool, the rest is bleh

[10023]

It's actually quite clever for a hotel. Those angled windows will provide great views of the whole skyline.

Wonder if they'll do discounts for members.

[SteelMonkey]

GEMS II is underway. The digging has begun

[trvlr70]

Originally Posted by SteelMonkey

GEMS II is underway. The digging has begun

Awesome. Now I just pray the height reduction doesn't jeopardize covering up the party wall to the west.

[harryc]

Originally Posted by trvlr70

Awesome. Now I just pray the height reduction doesn't jeopardize covering up the party wall to the west.

Isn't the "party wall" supposed to extend above the neighboring building - fire code and all that.

[emathias]

Originally Posted by aaron38

Equinox is interesting. But it reminds me of my furnace air filter.

You have a glass air filter?

[F1 Tommy]

Originally Posted by spyguy

Nice looking building.

[Randomguy34]

I wonder if this tower is an example of the type of design we should expect from "The 78". (they seriously need a better name)

[BrandonJXN]

The 78?

[Randomguy34]

Originally Posted by BrandonJXN

The 78?

It's the code name by Related Midwest for their 62 acre development in South Loop. It's a pun on how there are 77 communities in Chicago, and that the new development is going to feel like a 78th community

[SolarWind]

August 2, 2017



http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/media/94226936-132.html

[SolarWind]

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[SolarWind]

August 2, 2017

[the urban politician]

Originally Posted by SolarWind

August 2, 2017

Wow, one stunner after another. It's developers like the buttholes who built these two charmers that bestow developers everywhere with so much goodwill among the public.

[i_am_hydrogen]

^I walked past that building last weekend. The parking podium is a new level of horrendous.

[Skyguy_7]

^^ Disgusting. And when did China get a building that looks like the Sears Tower?

[Near North Resident]

I like this too, I'm just envisioning some interesting photographs with the reflection of the skyline in the east facing glass

[ithakas]

Originally Posted by i_am_hydrogen

^I walked past that building last weekend. The parking podium is a new level of horrendous.

I actually don't mind it that much, because the tower itself has good street interaction, and the optimist in me thinks having the standalone garage separate from the tower becomes a redevelopment opportunity in 10-15 years when it turns out rentals 3 blocks from the Loop don't need that much parking capacity...

I'm already looking forward to the day the day the lowrise brick building gets torn down, too. At least the block will be enveloped in by Riverline soon enough...

[Near North Resident]

Originally Posted by the urban politician

Wow, one stunner after another. It's developers like the buttholes who built these two charmers that bestow developers everywhere with so much goodwill among the public.

the aldercritter that allowed that ugly POS to be built should at least demand they cover that thing in ivy or some sort of greenery, its SO BAD! Looks like a 70's parking garage