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Old Posted Jan 29, 2021, 6:05 PM
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Originally Posted by ardecila View Post
It's not exposed steel framing, but it's likely a powder coated aluminum sheet that is formed or extruded into those wide-flange profiles to imitate steel. It won't be plastic. We've seen plenty of other West Loop buildings do similar, or that new building at LaSalle/Illinois.
Yeah, I think it needs to be kept to smaller profiles to get a pass. If that Related building turns out close to the rendering, it's going to be a lot of that material (and the artificiality will be easy to read).
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