Posted Jun 22, 2018, 6:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Jibba
I'm not looking at it from the standpoint of how it represents Chicago's civic value, either as a market or a level of standards, though I understand those concerns. Any sheathing would be bulky and applied heavy-handedly; the relative delicateness of the slab edges, as compared to the piers, would be lost. Nouvel's "MoMa tower", for example, looks like a plastic toy, and there are seams all over the place. The visible architectonic quality of the structure is greatly diminished, if not completely absent, and a flat, lifeless representation of it, in the form of the cladding, is all that's there.
While I agree that "painted concrete" can be evocative of things cheaply finished, it's going to create crisply delineated bays covered in glass, which the broader piers will outline and group. I think the final effect is going to look great.
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I’m not trying to read more into it either. Just aesthetics. I think River North has become a shockingly ugly neighborhood over the past 20 years (and one where I wouldn’t live), due to the infestation of both painted concrete and parking podiums.
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