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Wow cool pic the south loop really needs to bulk up, and it is, in order to balance the skyline. You can almost see that the Sears tower will continue to be the tallest and centerpiece of the skyline on this pic. Looks very uniform. |
But a city is not a dance party where partners need to have matched height. A city is not for viewing from a dinner cruise boat out on the lake; a city is for living in. We don't want our historic buildings reduced to mere sidewalk-level decoration. We want historic districts that keep their integrity and are not despoiled by invading giants four times the size of the natives. And in our climate, we want places to sit in the sun in the park in late spring and early fall.
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I don't know about you, but I don't see any shadows on Grant Park in the picture
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Lol, shadows.
I'm sorry, but if you want some sort of scenic nature walk you aren't going to find it here. By the time the sun gets low enough in the sky for this building to cast shadows across the metra tracks it's already well past peak sun and those historic buildings you like so much have already eviscerated any trace of sunlight on Michigan Ave as they have on every sunny day for 150 years. I hear Park Ridge has a really nice forest preserve, maybe you should move there. Oh wait, those pesky trees cast shadows on all that land and make it totally useless for recreation. Honestly though, I think the bigger problem we have in this city is a lack of shade, not some 100' wide shadow like a half a mile away from what was the tallest building on earth for 25 years. |
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The image below needs to be balanced on the southern skyline in compared to the bulk of the north. http://i.imgur.com/3MWnhTQ.jpg A city isn't just for living, it's also for playing. The vast metropolis in the image above is still in Chicago, where the densities are lower. The area in question now is downtown, which the South Loop is included in. Creating new history in historic districts is allowed. Perhaps we should tear all this shit down and have these discussions in a human scaled Native American teepee. |
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Speaking of, when do we get to see what's happening with that? The last report on that mentioned the site was sold to a Pritzker, so hopefully they hire someone better than P/H. And now that the YWCA facade is gone, it will be interesting to see how the building fronts Michigan Avenue. |
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All morning long, no shadows. Brilliant, blinding, delightful, delicious, intoxicating sunlight. Once late afternoon comes and the shadows start to move across the grassy lawns of Lincoln Park, I have two options: move a few metres north or south until I am again in the sun or haul myself a bit further east until I am back in the sun. Is planetary motion no longer taught in this country? Sorry to be a prick, but most days I don’t go sit in the sun. I admire the shifting shadows from above. Discounting wonderful additions to our dynamic skyscape based on very temporary conditions which change daily and are caused by our planet's rotation is odd to me. |
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Don't think I've seen this one posted yet http://s23.postimg.org/s1nxxzf2z/1000.jpg |
What's wrong with shadows in parks?
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I guess it's a shadow when man made, but shade if its a plant... |
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Not significantly shadowing public open space is a fundamental tenet of urban design in a climate like Chicago's. It's in the first chapter of any textbook on the subject. You only put shorter towers right at the edge of the park's southern and western border, and shift the bulk into buildings 200 to 300 feet away from the edge. Particularly galling in this case is wasting the huge T-shaped parcel that runs along Wabash on some parking podium, while not only harming the city's premier public space but also thumbing your nose at the landmark district. The only possible reason not to shift the number of units into three shorter and more efficient towers is naked greed, thinking you can more easily get Chinese investors to park their money in condos with jetliner views out over the park. |
Wow, such a big rally considering there are about 1.6 million people living in Manhattan and this has about 162 Facebook likes.... and 90 protesters.
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I'm not sayin....I'm just sayin... :shrug: |
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This picture shows that the South Loop has loads of potential in terms of growth. Big Jahn is needed. |
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These developers don't own the property along Wabash. They're only looking at the 1000 S. Michigan property. At the recent meeting, it was mentioned that they'd be getting an easement to widen the driveway access just west of 910 N. Michigan. The landmark district isn't getting any noses thumbed at it, but as mentioned, the zoning on this site is DX-16, which has no height limit. The main purpose of a landmark district is to preserve what's there. |
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One fine day all of Grand Park will be fenced by skyscrapers.
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