i love aon. sometimes, on hot summer days, i like to lay out on the benches in the park across the street and look up at it, and i think: daaaaaamn, that's tall. and i think how cool it'd be if it were 4x its height or more and wonder how tall it would have to be for the perspective from sitting at the base to combine all the vertical lines into one single point.
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To me, Aon is a sweet building. It may not be flashy, but its tallness is spectacular. And I actually think it's fairly straightforward design helps give the building an even bigger presence, particularly from Millenium Park. I generally walk up Michigan Avenue in that part of town each weekday and I can't help but stare at Aon.
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An oldie but a goodie.. perhaps a mid-70's photo with the white marble...
http://www.artificeimages.com/gbc/im...d_aj1339_b.jpg Punch buggy (twice)! |
:previous: Wow great find! Look at all that emptiness to the east of Aon!
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^They don't call it the "New Eastside" for nothin'. . . although the building I live in two blocks east of Aon was built in the early 1960s, most of everything east of there was built in the last 20 years. . .
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I always heard they made corporate gifts and paperweights
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and i QUOTE: "not that im saying its not tall" it is tall but it seems taller becuse it IS skinnyer then most supertalls. |
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I love messing with you:D :D Sometimes you dont know what your saying, you just post the first thought that comes to your mind. < That is not a healthy way to keep a thread alive, anyone on here will tell you this. Its just so anoying coming to your favorite thread and finding all the POS post, that dont inform us with anything, dont make ourselves question ourselves, but just "bother" us. Stop posting unnecessary post here and there. :notacrook: |
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If so. What building did you take it from? and can anyone post there pics of aon center at night for the 2016 olympic bid? |
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cooooooooool |
Similarities
We all know that Aon is very similar to the Twin Towers, and even Colpatria Tower in Bogota Colombia, but is Aon similar architecturaly wise? Is it just the looks, or is Aon built in a similar way?
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Construction
I've always wanted to ask: does anyone have pictures of this baby under construction?
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http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2249/...8a0017.jpg?v=0 http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2249/...8a0017.jpg?v=0 http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2230/...f68575.jpg?v=0 http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2230/...f68575.jpg?v=0 Cool pic that shows how alone it was when it was finished. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2086/...56c49b.jpg?v=0 http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2086/...56c49b.jpg?v=0 |
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