CHICAGO | Boom rundown - everything over 12 floors. v5 - Page 445

Nowhereman1280 · #**8881** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 8:19 PM**

I really like 110 and think it turned out great and love the color as well!

wrab · #**8882** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 8:23 PM**

i_am_hydrogen · #**8883** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 9:04 PM**

^One of the worst buildings to go up in this part of the boom.

Alliance · #**8884** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 9:08 PM**

Great shots wrabbit.

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Originally Posted by i_am_hydrogen

^One of the worst buildings to go up in this part of the boom.

Why do you feel that way? I wouldn't put it in "worst"

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Originally Posted by bnk

On just two short renders your are confident enough about your prediction of this piece being a pice total crap?

I can never be completely, but I have to be suspicious of Disneyworld ripoffs. I was more specifically attacking your disastrous"Build Anything Anywhere" approach.

As to the building. I'm actually a fan of Donnelly. Albeit I know I'm a minority in that opinion. The massing is fine, but the balconies are horrible. If that top part is a lantern and lit it would be a nice touch...but I'd rather have this than some LaGrange abomination. Park Tower is off Michigan Ave (I wasn't here, but just because I'm cynical I'm assuming at that point a lot of people here were just drooling over that turd) and frankly a lot of the architecture in that area is 80s reject junk that makes me want to vomit. So, I guess this fits right in. Anyway, I'd rather have bad glass than bad non-glass, because if nothing else the tower appear lighter and brings more light in.

Still though, its like having a car with one wheel instead of none....its still not going to get you anywhere. I'd rather have patience, let good projects like Arqui, Waldorf, etc go through, even resurrect ones like 680 instead of building this. We dont need the market drained with bad projects.

spyguy · #**8885** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 10:12 PM**

I thought this was the latest design (in Roeder's column some months ago)

wrab · #**8886** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 10:35 PM**

^ Looks like the mini-me version of Waterview.

colemonkee · #**8887** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 10:48 PM**

I spent the last three days in your wonderful city. I'll post some pictures when I get a chance...

Tom In Chicago · #**8888** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 11:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by spyguy

I thought this was the latest design (in Roeder's column some months ago)

Well that would be an improvement. . .

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wrab · #**8889** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 11:28 PM**

^ Yes - better.

Busy Bee · #**8890** Posted **Sep 19, 2008, 11:50 PM**

Is this still being "designed" by Epstein engineering?

Chicago Shawn · #**8891** Posted **Sep 20, 2008, 12:29 AM**

^No, that indeed is the latest design which was approved as part of the amended PD that went back to plan commission. The top will now have wind turbines.

i_am_hydrogen · #**8892** Posted **Sep 20, 2008, 4:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by Alliance

Why do you feel that way? I wouldn't put it in "worst"

-The glass is too opaque and has a cheap, plastic appearance to it.

-The two different sides of the building make for strange bedfellows. It's as though two architects with widely different styles designed it. Don't get me wrong, I like buildings with a diversity of facades, but in the case of the Clare, they bear no relation to each other. And the once charming streetscape on Chicago Avenue has been vitiated by an absurdly angular facade towering above.

-The parking structure. It's form follows function taken to its undesirable extreme. Can you honestly say that you'll enjoy walking past this cold behemoth? It's unwelcoming and completely rejects the pedestrian.

denizen467 · #**8893** Posted **Sep 20, 2008, 5:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by i_am_hydrogen

-The glass is too opaque and has a cheap, plastic appearance to it.

-The two different sides of the building make for strange bedfellows. It's as though two architects with widely different styles designed it. Don't get me wrong, I like buildings with a diversity of facades, but in the case of the Clare, they bear no relation to each other. And the once charming streetscape on Chicago Avenue has been vitiated by an absurdly angular facade towering above.

-The parking structure. It's form follows function taken to its undesirable extreme. Can you honestly say that you'll enjoy walking past this cold behemoth? It's unwelcoming and completely rejects the pedestrian.

Wow, after years of just photos here it's like you just sprouted a (vocal) opinion - welcome - you must feel passionately about this one - are you a neighbor?
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Apologies if this repeats any earlier posts, but I hadn't really noticed this. I see it's on Page 1 of this thread, but I hadn't seen any mention lately. I kind of zone out on stuff north of 5000 if it doesn't have significant height...

http://www.globest.com/news/1244_1244/chicago/173785-1.html
Bluewater Group 2 Inc. will construct a 15-story building offering 187 condo units, townhouses and ground level in the city’s Edgewater neighborhood. The development, at 5440 N. Sheridan, will be known as Bluewater 5440.
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"The developers feel there is a demand in this area based on the fact that it is a unique neighborhood slightly outside of the central core of Chicago," King tells GlobeSt.com. "There is a captive audience of people who want to live in that area, and not much new housing stock."

denizen467 · #**8894** Posted **Sep 20, 2008, 5:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by Tom In Chicago

Well that would be an improvement. . .

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My blood pressure is down too..

Jibba · #**8895** Posted **Sep 20, 2008, 5:43 AM**

^^Good news about Bluewater; I'm glad to hear that it is moving forward. It's too bad they marginalized the design somewhat since the original scheme from a few years back, but it's better than nothing.

i_am_hydrogen · #**8896** Posted **Sep 20, 2008, 5:52 AM**

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Originally Posted by denizen467

Wow, after years of just photos here it's like you just sprouted a (vocal) opinion - welcome - you must feel passionately about this one - are you a neighbor?

My existence here predates your's by about a year. Search my post history. I've been known to drop an opinion from time to time.

jet cm · #**8897** Posted **Sep 20, 2008, 10:51 AM**

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shocking blue in a sea of grey...perhaps a bit too much blue

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I think it's great, from the outside.

Not so sure I'd want to live inside looking out at blue gray everything all the time.

Nowhereman1280 · #**8898** Posted **Sep 20, 2008, 4:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by denizen467

I live directly above this site, I had been assuming it was a dead project until now. Hopefully they will move forward so I can provide some pictures from nearly directly above the site. (I live on the 49th floor of a neighboring building).

This site really needs to have something built on it and this is the perfect height to transition from the low rise stuff to the west to the cluster of large highrises that I live in, just as they said.

jc5680 · #**8899** Posted **Sep 20, 2008, 4:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by HowardL

Speaking of 2520, there are a couple of those little tractors that do demo up on the roof. Showed up yesterday. Looks like the last big bit of demo is getting geared up.

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jpIllInoIs · #**8900** Posted **Sep 20, 2008, 4:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by colemonkee

I spent the last three days in your wonderful city. I'll post some pictures when I get a chance...

Let em rip CM. I look forward to the photos. Hope you had a good time.