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I like the towers a lot, but I'm less enthused with the podium joining them.

I can see why they'd want the shared outdoor space for amenities, and to block noise from LSD, but it really closes off the site, and thus DuSable Park, more than I'd like.

It's not even 100% clear from the renderings that there will be riverwalk on the north Ogden slip side as well as the south river side, and that seems like it ought to be mandatory to me.

I wonder if they might be convinced to open up the bottom couple of floors of the podium into a wide passageway reminiscent of the Wrigley Building, and retain the top floors as a large skybridge. That way they could retain the shared amenities and roof deck, while also touching the ground more lightly and creating more flow through the site to DuSable Park.

The area under the skybridge between towers, with the porte cochere to the west, the towers' lobbies to the north and south, and a path to DuSable park to the east could be a really unique space. The skybridge could serve to shelter people being picked up and dropped off from the weather, and block the noise from the elevated LSD, as well as providing a really grand gateway to the lakefront (as opposed to the less than grand utilitarian impression LSD gives alone).