CHICAGO | St. Regis Chicago (Vista) | 1,191 FT | 101 FLOORS

[PittsburghPA]

Originally Posted by harryc

Sept 14



Oct 1

Look at the sun reflecting on the spandrel glass! We are gonna have a stunner once this thing gets clad.

[PittsburghPA]

Originally Posted by BVictor1

09/30/18
The structure for the rest of the tower goes to regular columns vs that sheer wall.

Good catch. Where are the blow through floors supposed to take place?

[BVictor1]

Originally Posted by pittsburghpa

good catch. Where are the blow through floors supposed to take place?

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[cozy]

Originally Posted by harryc

Pigeons and chunks of ice - hopefully some slant on the ledges.

There is a slant on the ledges. Birds visit the building from time to time but I've never once seen a pigeon or crow on any of the existing 3 ledges

[Donnie77]

Originally Posted by cozy

There is a slant on the ledges. Birds visit the building from time to time but I've never once seen a pigeon or crow on any of the existing 3 ledges

Looking at the glass now makes me think Jean should have called this one Aqua and the other Vista!

[Notyrview]

Originally Posted by Donnie77

Looking at the glass now makes me think Jean should have called this one Aqua and the other Vista!

I see that you've really rebranded yourself

[Zerton]

"The Guano"

[vexxed82]

Stopped by the site this afternoon. Here are a couple close crops on the glass' bottom edges. Definitely an angled edge installed along the edge.

Will post some proper shots later once I'm done editing.

[Blahshead]

What are people's thoughts on the angled edges? Not what I was expecting, but I'm not sure if it's a big deal or not. I'm Blahshead by the way--been lurking for a while now and love the discussion.

[Bombardier]

^Looks kinda garbage to me... but expectations were at an all time low after many mock-up failures so I’m not surprised. Trying to have a cheap system detailed like an expensive system doesn’t usually work out too well. I’m sure it will look fine from far away, so I guess it will have to do.

[BonoboZill4]

I'll have to wait and see what it looks like when there is a lot more glass on the building. Micro-analyzing something at this level is just too early in my book. I'd rather be wrong but patient, than have a kneejerk reaction to something and look like a dingus only weeks later.

[SolarWind]

October 3, 2018

[harryc]

Originally Posted by Blahshead

What are people's thoughts on the angled edges? Not what I was expecting, but I'm not sure if it's a big deal or not. I'm Blahshead by the way--been lurking for a while now and love the discussion.

Ice and Pigeons - Ice falling from buildings has killed people in Chicago.

Ascetically not very much impact if any at all.

[aaron38]

Oct 4 '18

[BonoboZill4]

Really cool view aaron!

[vexxed82]

Originally Posted by harryc

Ice and Pigeons - Ice falling from buildings has killed people in Chicago.

Ascetically not very much impact if any at all.

Right. From the ground it'll be barely noticeable. Though I am curious what it looks like from a resident's perspective. Is it black, is it stainless steel?

Edit: Just realized that there will 'underhangs' visible from the street for the outward leaning frustums. I wonder if those will be treated with the same angled strip for uniformity.

Also, on closer inspection, it does look like those angled bits are stainless steel (noticed the rolled edge on in the right image of my zoomed screen grab). Hopefully we're seeing the finished surface in that shot and not the plastic film. I think the horizontal banding those strips (hopefully) produce will help exaggerate the undulating form of the tower.

[BonoboZill4]

The idea of ice falling on my head and killing me is frightening... not looking forward to winter

[LouisVanDerWright]

^Just tread carefully in winter, you know what days have an ice risk (it's obviously after heavy wet snow followed by a hard freeze) and it's usually obvious where the ice is falling by the bits and pieces scattered on the sidewalk. It's not something that's entirely unpredictable and impossible to mostly avoid.


The glass on this is going to look crazy, I just drove by last night around sunset and the spandrels were lit up. You could see all sorts of color variation. It basically varies from deep emerald green to almost a steel gray/blue. It looks like the reflectivity changes just as much with less reflectivity on the green, more on the blue (which just makes it look more grey).

The panels they have been putting up so far look extremely green which I think is a good thing.

[Skyguy_7]

Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright

^Just tread carefully in winter, you know what days have an ice risk (it's obviously after heavy wet snow followed by a hard freeze) and it's usually obvious where the ice is falling by the bits and pieces scattered on the sidewalk. It's not something that's entirely unpredictable and impossible to mostly avoid.


The glass on this is going to look crazy, I just drove by last night around sunset and the spandrels were lit up. You could see all sorts of color variation. It basically varies from deep emerald green to almost a steel gray/blue. It looks like the reflectivity changes just as much with less reflectivity on the green, more on the blue (which just makes it look more grey).

The panels they have been putting up so far look extremely green which I think is a good thing.

^ Aside from the color variations, Vista will have considerably more texture than say, 30HY's sloping sides. Off the top of my head, we have nothing else like this in Chicago, let alone anywhere in the US. The scaling effect on the facade will be glorious.

http://a4.pbase.com/o10/06/102706/1/...082818_75b.JPG
VIa 30 Hudson Yards thread

[vexxed82]

From Wednesday, October 5th


























And one 'Photoshop' estimating the final height. Sorry I didn't try and work-in the blow-through floors