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Originally Posted by CHI -21c
1. Was the checker pattern intentional, and does Gang like it?
2. Is it supposed to look so flat, looking down LSD?
These characteristics dominate the design yet Gang's complacent towards them.
And how's this going to look juxtaposed with the Hancock? Does Gang know? 2 Prudential complements the city's seriousness. Wanda does not.
I bet, instead of looking at her work with criticism, she'll just say “cool” and “it’s better than an empty lot.” I still think it was a doodle.
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1. Yes, that's he whole shtick here, the "weaving" facade.
2. I don't really think it looks flat, if you look at the footprint it's anything but. The building staggers back significantly from SE to NW along the river in order to create as many corner views as possible down the river towards the lake on the North side of the building and towards the Park and Millennium Park on the South face.
Finally, surely you must be joking about 2 Pru. While it is a generally attractive building, it is not architectural masterpiece. Also, Steve Wright, the architect, is one of the finest purveyor's of suburban office architecture in Chicago. Literally everything else he's designed is cookie cutter 5 floor office buildings with pomo granite facades marooned in the middle of a huge parking lot in the suburbs. Not exactly an allstar building and CERTAINLY not complementary to Chicago's architectural heritage.
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