CHICAGO | Boom rundown - everything over 12 floors. v5 - Page 155

Tom In Chicago · #**3081** Posted **Sep 5, 2007, 1:09 AM**

They really fucked that one up. . . no justice is done by walling up Kenzo Tange's masterpiece next door. . .

BVictor1 · #**3082** Posted **Sep 5, 2007, 1:14 AM**

The Streeter II/Streeter Place, or whatever the hell you want to call it is...

NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Tom Servo · #**3083** Posted **Sep 5, 2007, 2:18 AM**

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modkris · #**3084** Posted **Sep 5, 2007, 3:27 AM**

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Originally Posted by Tom In Chicago

They really fucked that one up. . . no justice is done by walling up Kenzo Tange's masterpiece next door. . .

Yeah, why couldn't they have put the taller tower section at the back and the shorter portion at the front? Stupid to block one of River North's best buildings. They could have made them complement each other. Booo!

aaron38 · #**3085** Posted **Sep 5, 2007, 3:43 AM**

The base of Aloft looks really sterile and cold - no warmth to it.

VivaLFuego · #**3086** Posted **Sep 5, 2007, 4:07 AM**

Agreed, aloft will really diminish the views of AMA's unique feature (the angled face with a cutout). Sigh. And there's still that surface parking lot across the street.

honte · #**3087** Posted **Sep 5, 2007, 4:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by modkris

Yeah, why couldn't they have put the taller tower section at the back and the shorter portion at the front? Stupid to block one of River North's best buildings. They could have made them complement each other. Booo!

Agreed. A really half-baked attempt, although not as bad as the things Buck has put up in the area lately.

The massing of the building is clearly siding with financial demands - intended to help Buck secure future office tenants to the old AMA building by protecting views - and not in favor of architecture. How sad.

TowerGuy37 · #**3088** Posted **Sep 5, 2007, 1:12 PM**

i agree the base is way sterile and cold. Almost has the same cold look as the base of Walton On The Park. We have so many of these buildings everywhere now that given the modern and contemporary feel of the actual tower, the bases all look the same. Downtown is becoming one precast concrete jungle. so disappointing.

Steely Dan · #**3089** Posted **Sep 5, 2007, 3:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by BVictor1

The Streeter II/Streeter Place, or whatever the hell you want to call it is...

NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION

groovy. thanks for the update.

Tom In Chicago · #**3090** Posted **Sep 5, 2007, 4:35 PM**

Another 500+ footer starts. . . 16 currently under construction and 88 completed to date. . . 104 total. . . numbers are fun. . .

tm30 · #**3091** Posted **Sep 5, 2007, 6:16 PM**

I apologize in advance if this has already been posted and/or if this is the wrong thread to post it in, but I happened across an amazing film from the Museum of Broadcast Communications with a "birdseye" tour of the Chicago skyline c. 1970 by WMAQ-Ch. 5. This was during the construction of Aon, which, in the film, is a little more than halfway complete.

http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=86210675

Again, sorry if this has already been posted, but it's very cool.

tm30 · #**3092** Posted **Sep 5, 2007, 6:17 PM**

I apologize in advance if this has already been posted and/or if this is the wrong thread to post it in, but I happened across an amazing film from the Museum of Broadcast Communications with a "birdseye" tour of the Chicago skyline c. 1970 by WMAQ-Ch. 5. This was during the construction of Aon, which, in the film, is a little more than halfway complete.

http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=86210675

Again, sorry if this has already been posted, but it's very cool.

Complex01 · #**3093** Posted **Sep 5, 2007, 6:19 PM**

Another one, Wow. They just keep coming. I really need to plan a trip...

gttx · #**3094** Posted **Sep 5, 2007, 7:39 PM**

In regards to the Palomar:

At least you didn't end up with a scaled-back, stumpy building like the one currently U/C in Atlanta:

(from the official website)

spyguy · #**3095** Posted **Sep 5, 2007, 11:29 PM**

http://chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?post_date=2007-09-05&id=26262

Children's Memorial to get $100-million gift
New hospital in Streeterville to be named for Ann and Robert Lurie

Sept. 05, 2007
By Mike Colias

Children’s Memorial’s board last year decided to relocate from its cramped campus in Lincoln Park to the Streeterville site, at Chicago Avenue and North Fairbanks Court. Hospital officials expect to break ground in April on the 22-story, 276-bed facility, pending approval from state health regulators and city officials.

spyguy · #**3096** Posted **Sep 5, 2007, 11:38 PM**

http://chicagorealestatedaily.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=26248

Lehman sells interest in Streeterville development

By Alby Gallun
Sep. 05, 2007

Lehman Bros. has cashed out of a once-troubled mixed-use development in Streeterville about two years after bringing in Centrum Properties Inc. to turn around the project.

...Mr. McLinden expects to begin construction this fall on a second condo tower, the St. Clair, which is about 35% sold, he says. A third tower is planned between the first two that would include 200 condos and a 350-room five-star hotel.

i_am_hydrogen · #**3097** Posted **Sep 5, 2007, 11:53 PM**

^Nice find, spyguy. This is the first time I've seen an updated rendering of the third tower.

Loopy · #**3098** Posted **Sep 6, 2007, 12:45 AM**

This could be interesting. From todays Roeder column:

http://www.suntimes.com/business/543581,sams090507.article

Quote:

Ald. Sandi Jackson (7th) will discuss the USX South Works redevelopment site during a Sept. 12 luncheon of the Southside Builders Association. The noon event is at the Grand Ballroom, 6351 S. Cottage Grove.

honte · #**3099** Posted **Sep 6, 2007, 1:29 AM**

Is it just me, or does the new Children's Memorial look like it's shaping up to be a miserable POS? I know the rendering's small, but everything I'm seeing turns me off. And when the first thing you see is an evening render, it's never a good sign.

ChitownJay · #**3100** Posted **Sep 6, 2007, 1:48 AM**

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Originally Posted by tm30

I apologize in advance if this has already been posted and/or if this is the wrong thread to post it in, but I happened across an amazing film from the Museum of Broadcast Communications with a "birdseye" tour of the Chicago skyline c. 1970 by WMAQ-Ch. 5. This was during the construction of Aon, which, in the film, is a little more than halfway complete.

http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=86210675

Again, sorry if this has already been posted, but it's very cool.

Thank you for introducing this!

This video really brings back some great memories. But I think that Sears, Standard Oil, CNA Assurance and Mid-Continental are all too developed for this film to have been shot in 1970. As I recall, these building would have looked like this in the summer of 1971. I had just completed my sophomore year in college and was very much enamored with the rapidly developing downtown Chicago and my summer love, Christine.

The coolest thing about this film is not just what's being filmed, but what no longer is there. Look at all the surface parking lots and old building stock that have been supplanted by a 36-year crop of Chicago highrises!