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Originally Posted by gebs
I believe the original building pitched for this site several years before 1000M was a concept was much taller and thinner? I'm 80% sure of this.
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Not quite. See the image in the top left of the thread for the original proposal. A landmarks commission didn't think it respected the Michigan Ave streetwall so it was downsized and Jahn said the design looked bad when shrunk.
The user above was referring to
waterview, which stalled during the financial crisis and sat embarassingly unfinished until 2011.