Once again, I don't think the renderings do justice. In the renderings it looks like a big fat intrusive building. With a little imagination and placing it more into the urban context or Chicago I think it'll be great. Chicago, unlike NY, still has a LOT of empty space in the dowtown area to build up in-I'm surprised this hasn't been built earlier.
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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
here are some of the designs that ricardo bofill drew up for this piece of land at some point in the past. all i can say is THANK FUCKING CHRIST none of these things got built. one bofill marring the river is way more than enough. the pickard chilton design we're getting at this site may not be ground breaking, but it's thousands of times better than any of these things.
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Did he design those before or after his other building?
If it was after, then I would be concerned for his lack of creativity.
But the tower that he actually got built on the river is a beautiful one-seeing it glinting off the early morning sun from the windowpanes makes it look like it came out of a sketch-
