CHICAGO | 400 N Lake Shore Drive | 851 FT & 765 FT | 73 & ? FLOORS - Page 91

pianowizard · #**1801** Posted **May 23, 2020, 11:48 AM**

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Originally Posted by Hudson11

eh i dont know, there's a lot of those.

Whether one likes this design or not, we can't deny that it is rather unique. Instead of "there's a lot of these", you probably meant to say that there are many Chicago buildings that you like more.

IMO the front view looks very nice -- no wonder this is by far the most marketed view -- but I want to see more high-detail renderings from other angles. So far the towers seem to look significantly less appealing from other angles, for example these:

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Steely Dan · #**1802** Posted **May 24, 2020, 2:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by pianowizard

IMO the front view looks very nice -- no wonder this is by far the most marketed view -- but I want to see more high-detail renderings from other angles. So far the towers seem to look significantly less appealing from other angles, for example these:

Meh.

Yeah, the view from from the lake is obviously the knockout, but that other view you posted from the southwest looks very nice as well.

Interesting towers with interesting, varying massings that look great from all of the angles we've seen so far, IMO.

HomrQT · #**1803** Posted **May 24, 2020, 2:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by Steely Dan

Meh.

Yeah, the view from from the lake is obviously the knockout, but that other view you posted from the southwest looks very nice as well.

Interesting towers with interesting, varying massings that look great from all of the angles we've seen so far, IMO.

I do very much appreciate some well implemented wedding cake massings.

Zapatan · #**1804** Posted **May 24, 2020, 5:37 PM**

It looks massive from the side, definitely starting to like the project more

Mimol742 · #**1805** Posted **Jun 9, 2020, 6:00 AM**

When are they going to break ground?

harryc · #**1806** Posted **Jun 9, 2020, 12:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by Mimol742

When are they going to break ground?

July 22 2007

Chicagolover88 · #**1807** Posted **Jun 9, 2020, 7:56 PM**

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July 22 2007

They started?

Zapatan · #**1808** Posted **Jun 9, 2020, 8:00 PM**

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They started?

No, that's from 2007 when the spire started

Donnie77 · #**1809** Posted **Jun 17, 2020, 10:48 PM**

Is the first tower going to be built over the existing foundation?

https://www.ctbuh.org/news/plan-to-r...ning-committee

Mimol742 · #**1810** Posted **Jun 17, 2020, 10:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by Zapatan

No, that's from 2007 when the spire started

So we still don’t know?

Chicagolover88 · #**1811** Posted **Jun 20, 2020, 2:16 AM**

City hall approved the building

harryc · #**1812** Posted **Jul 4, 2020, 4:33 AM**

June 29

Chicago | 400 N LSD by Harry Carmichael, on Flickr

colemonkee · #**1813** Posted **Jul 5, 2020, 7:22 PM**

Wow, I wouldn't think there would be standing water in there this late in the season. Is that from recent rain, or ground water?

bnk · #**1814** Posted **Jul 5, 2020, 9:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by colemonkee

Wow, I wouldn't think there would be standing water in there this late in the season. Is that from recent rain, or ground water?

Its always been there. Looks like the level of the lake.

harryc · #**1815** Posted **Jul 5, 2020, 10:09 PM**

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Its always been there. Looks like the level of the lake.

Correct - noticeably different than the level of the river at times.

Zapatan · #**1816** Posted **Aug 10, 2020, 6:12 PM**

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Based on the new footprints... does anyone know what they are doing with that giant hole? excavation dirt?

I'd assume they'd just dig around it, and fill part of it in if its too deep.

harryc · #**1817** Posted **Aug 10, 2020, 8:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by Zapatan

I'd assume they'd just dig around it, and fill part of it in if its too deep.

Plans are to use many of the existing rock socketed caissons - 7 pairs are tied off near the surface in sets around the hole, another 9 (?) are topped off at the bottom of the hole, what was intended as the lowest (7th) level of the underground parking.

There is a 70' + deep wall around the entire site, and dozens of "smaller" caissons throughout the site.

(no my image)

And that soil has a distinctly smokey smell to it, landfill from the fire.

bhawk66 · #**1818** Posted **Aug 10, 2020, 8:04 PM**

just build the original for cripes sake. Pleeeese! It's not too late!

HomrQT · #**1819** Posted **Aug 11, 2020, 6:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by bhawk66

just build the original for cripes sake. Pleeeese! It's not too late!

My vote is to build a deco version of the Spire...

Zapatan · #**1820** Posted **Aug 11, 2020, 6:58 PM**

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just build the original for cripes sake. Pleeeese! It's not too late!

I still remember the excitement when the original Spire started construction. Hard to swallow that amount of disappointment.

That being said, this is still on track to start next year, no?