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Originally Posted by Northwest
Well it pushes the skyline west of the Kennedy. But the architecture does not please me, it just looks cheap to me. Im looking forward to the day when this does not stick out, and becomes simple infill for other, better towers.
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It is a masterpiece for what it did when it did.
An innovative twist on the painted concrete that was plagueing chicago
I feel it is as much a statement of defiance to the status quo at the the turn of the century in chicago, as much as it is a beautiful use of materials usually used it crappy shitty designs in river north
painted concrete is not a automatic bad, although I do prefer the unpainted contemporaine by Ralph Johnson (the architect of Skybridge)
it's just when painted concrete is used instead of using the material it is impersonating, that's when most buildings in the last 10 years have died in my mind. Retrospective architecture is beautiful, when well detailed, and there are only a few rare examples of that in this current boom
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