CHICAGO | Salesforce Tower | 850 FT | 60 FLOORS - Page 121

SIGSEGV · #**2401** Posted **Aug 10, 2022, 4:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by thegoatman

Could there be a second riverwalk added to the left side of the river?

I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but the the river-front space shown will be public (in fact, it already is, minus for the part under construction). You can go get an overpriced pour-over from Blue Bottle Coffee and drink it on a bench by the river right now.

west-town-brad · #**2402** Posted **Aug 10, 2022, 1:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by thegoatman

Could there be a second riverwalk added to the left side of the river?

I don't know what side is the "left side" but all development within 100 feet of the river edge requires a planned development that aligns to everything listed here: https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...es-update.html

Not all riverwalk will look like the section downtown on the main branch.

SolarWind · #**2403** Posted **Aug 15, 2022, 10:46 PM**

August 11, 2022

rivernorthlurker · #**2404** Posted **Aug 16, 2022, 12:06 AM**

Its easier to see the texture change of the glass here from the ledge on the setback around the 50th and up.

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August 11, 2022

rivernorthlurker · #**2405** Posted **Aug 16, 2022, 12:15 AM**

8/15/22

More glass progress on the north face. Won't be long now.

Chicagolover88 · #**2406** Posted **Aug 16, 2022, 2:37 AM**

It looks to stubby ��

pianowizard · #**2407** Posted **Aug 16, 2022, 2:59 AM**

When this is done, the 805' 1000M will be the tallest under-construction building in Chicago. Hopefully 400 Lake Shore Drive (875') and Lakeshore East Parcel I (at least 950') will keep the current boom going.

rivernorthlurker · #**2408** Posted **Aug 16, 2022, 10:42 AM**

8/11/22

SolarWind · #**2409** Posted **Aug 16, 2022, 11:19 PM**

August 16, 2022

rivernorthlurker · #**2410** Posted **Aug 16, 2022, 11:25 PM**

Exciting day. Looking forward to seeing how it looks with those vertical lines matching WPE.

Great close up of the larger fins on the top floors as well. Thanks Solar.

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August 16, 2022

lakeshoredrive · #**2411** Posted **Aug 17, 2022, 12:27 AM**

will the fins be lit up at night?

The North One · #**2412** Posted **Aug 17, 2022, 3:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by Chicagolover88

It looks to stubby ��

Because he's such a chubby boy.

That's the problem with office towers today, they all have to be obese to be attractive to tenants.

rivernorthlurker · #**2413** Posted **Aug 17, 2022, 3:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by lakeshoredrive

will the fins be lit up at night?

It better be (and I think it will) - especially since the setbacks provide convenient places to mount the lighting. Salesforce SF has the entire crown as an LED screen that displays artwork so SalesForce I think is very pro lighting.

https://sf-towertopart.com/

Also the lobby is supposed to have video screens I think (similar to the SF lobby as well.)

See https://www.333wolfpoint.com/gallery/ for pics. I'm really looking forward to this but haven't seen too many details about it.

Salesforce SF video wall https://archinect.com/news/article/1...bscura-digital

ORD2010 · #**2414** Posted **Aug 17, 2022, 4:23 PM**

Will the fins on the glazing be installed all the way down? or only the upper floors? I'm not too hopeful about the larger ones being illuminated given that east's never were and are very similar, hope to be proved wrong! would love to see them be able to change color and match the rest of the city on special dates or give a little show like the new one atop sears

Steely Dan · #**2415** Posted **Aug 17, 2022, 6:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by The North One

That's the problem with office towers today, they all have to be obese to be attractive to tenants.

that's not really a new development in chicago.

the chunky office tower has been the default program in this town since the '50s.

source: https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/bui...ial-plaza/2190

rivernorthlurker · #**2416** Posted **Aug 17, 2022, 7:54 PM**

Their current placement of the fins matches renders of them only being on the top 10 floors or so. So I'm pretty confident they will not be going lower than that.

WPE is a fully residential building while WPS is fully commercial. There aren't many residential buildings that have lighting programs that I can think of so I don't think it's a good litmus test. Salesforce being a commercial entity will want their name on the building attractively displayed at night. Also this dusk render appears to show it illuminated (https://www.hines.com/properties/sal...-south-chicago), but I'm not sure about the color lighting. But I'd be shocked if it wasn't part of the city's coordinated lighting program given Salesforce's elaborate lighting on their San Francisco tower and the prominent location of this tower here.

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Originally Posted by ORD2010

Will the fins on the glazing be installed all the way down? or only the upper floors? I'm not too hopeful about the larger ones being illuminated given that east's never were and are very similar, hope to be proved wrong! would love to see them be able to change color and match the rest of the city on special dates or give a little show like the new one atop sears

ORD2010 · #**2417** Posted **Aug 18, 2022, 1:05 AM**

Also, does it feel like they sed a fair bit of the setbacks originally planned for the front? looks like 3/4 instead of the 5/6 rendered on the hines site.

https://www.hines.com/properties/sal...-south-chicago

BrinChi · #**2418** Posted **Aug 18, 2022, 3:25 PM**

^ I think it's still too early to make that conclusion. The setbacks are pretty subtle even in the renderings so until the glass is up I don't think we can say if the design changed a bit.

ardecila · #**2419** Posted **Aug 18, 2022, 9:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by Steely Dan

that's not really a new development in chicago.

the chunky office tower has been the default program in this town since the '50s.

Longer than that... the quarter-block office towers from the 1910s and 1920s with light courts were seen as pretty chunky too, especially compared to NYC's towers from that era which were less boxy and usually had more of a wedding cake form (Woolworth, etc).

When NYC did get a chonky Chicago-style tower - the Equitable Building, designed by a Chicago architect - everyone lost their sh*t and they reformed the zoning code to mandate wedding-cake design.

galleyfox · #**2420** Posted **Aug 18, 2022, 9:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by ardecila

Longer than that... the quarter-block office towers from the 1910s and 1920s with light courts were seen as pretty chunky too, especially compared to NYC's towers from that era which were less boxy and usually had more of a wedding cake form (Woolworth, etc).

When NYC did get a chonky Chicago-style tower - the Equitable Building, designed by a Chicago architect - everyone lost their sh*t and they reformed the zoning code to mandate wedding-cake design.

The 1800s actually. The foreign journalists back then often said, “Wow, those are some chonky office buildings.”

William Archer, America To-Day, 1900

Probably predates the skyscraper itself even. In the 1870s, there’s discussion of the unusual size and extent of the warehouses.

Sir John Leng, America in 1876, 1877