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LouisVanDerWright

Apr 1, 2018 2:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Notyrview (Post 8139162)

Eh i don't know. I had such high hopes for this. It literally feels like 50 years since the first renderings were released. It would have been so much better had they not cheaped out on the recessed balconies. C+

Lol who says this? "I wish this design had balconies"... When have balconies ever made a design better (not including Aqua or MC where the design IS balconies)? Maybe you could say that recessed balconies would be better if they changed then to protruding balconies or basket balconies, but I've literally never seen a building where someone added balconies and been like "oh yeah, thumbs up, wayyy better"...

SteelMonkey

Apr 1, 2018 3:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Kumdogmillionaire (Post 8139373)

That looks exactly like the building as is, there are no balconies in the rendering, and there never were on any blueprints. The reflections on the glass are a bit exaggerated, but you both are wrong

Exactly. Never were intended.

marothisu

Apr 1, 2018 4:12 PM

There is literally 0% chance any sort of normal balconies would make this building look any better. It would make it look worse, easily. This is turning out to be one of my favorite buildings in Chicago in recent years.

Kumdogmillionaire

Apr 1, 2018 5:19 PM

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Originally Posted by BVictor1 (Post 8139396)

They didn't cheap out, they just didn't include them in the final product. Seems like only a handful of units would have had balconies in the first place.

"Include". Nah, they were never there to begin with friend. Y'all are getting optical allusion disease here

spyguy

Apr 1, 2018 5:38 PM

Actually, I think at one point the design did include balconies. In some ways I'm glad this project took so long for that reason and the parking decreases.

Fvn	Apr 1, 2018 6:34 PM

^^^
Found an early on drawing on Curbed from 2016 that depicts balconies as well as a rendering that appears to have balconies on it
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/iezH...%20halsted.jpg
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/V58l...halsted2.0.png

https://chicago.curbed.com/2016/3/11...halsted-update

Notyrview

Apr 1, 2018 9:00 PM

Yeah a vertical stretch of recessed balconies def would have been an improvement. All these walls of blue glass are so overbearing and often look warped and cheap. It helps to carve them up. I guess the pattern is supposed to do that but i still see saran wrap in many pictures. It's gonna look very dated very fast. It looks dated now tbh.

LouisVanDerWright

Apr 1, 2018 9:44 PM

Lol ick, no balconies would not have been an improvement...

BVictor1

Apr 1, 2018 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Kumdogmillionaire (Post 8139714)

"Include". Nah, they were never there to begin with friend. Y'all are getting optical allusion disease here

Kumdogmillionaire

Apr 1, 2018 11:50 PM

I stand corrected. Still think the rendering is showing a reflection of Skybridge though

Fvn	Apr 1, 2018 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Kumdogmillionaire (Post 8139973)

I stand corrected. Still think the rendering is showing a reflection of Skybridge though

In that rendering, yea. The ones I showed are from 2016 when it was first announced

Notyrview

Apr 2, 2018 3:08 PM

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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright (Post 8139898)

Lol ick, no balconies would not have been an improvement...

Ok you can have another banal blue glass tower but all one needs to do is look at WPW and 200 N Michigan to observe how balconies done well improve the vertical expression of residential glass towers as well as mitigate the saran wrap problem.

harryc

Apr 8, 2018 10:51 PM

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