CHICAGO | Boom rundown - everything over 12 floors. v5 - Page 244

harryc · #**4861** Posted **Dec 13, 2007, 2:04 PM**

Core is rising - first ceiling/floor being put in.

I suspect that the floor will be used to brace the walls, then the rakers can be removed, and the bottom floor poured ( time will tell ).

Cable rails & throw rugs along the sheet pile

Rakers in t he mud

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spyguy · #**4862** Posted **Dec 13, 2007, 2:28 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by BVictor1

535 St. Clair
Before:
After:

Remember, this updated design is subject to change.

Well that's depressing...

i_am_hydrogen · #**4863** Posted **Dec 13, 2007, 3:02 PM**

FYI... Parkview West is T/O. The tower crane has been removed.

spyguy · #**4864** Posted **Dec 13, 2007, 4:17 PM**

http://www.chicagorealestatedaily.com/cgi-bin/page.pl?id=2166

Chicago — W. Kinzie Mixed-Use Building, 161 W. Kinzie, 250-unit mixed-use building, March 2008, $40 million.

harryc · #**4865** Posted **Dec 13, 2007, 5:35 PM**

Blommers !

K St Station (?)

topped out

Bottoming out

Modern

RD 659

Somewhere in Greektown

Heading back east

harryc · #**4866** Posted **Dec 13, 2007, 5:47 PM**

K Street at sunset

aaron38 · #**4867** Posted **Dec 13, 2007, 6:04 PM**

^^^It's like the frontier - the skyline pushing out into uncharted teritory.

Tom In Chicago · #**4868** Posted **Dec 13, 2007, 6:08 PM**

K Station is absolutely horrible from the west. . .

Dr. Taco · #**4869** Posted **Dec 13, 2007, 6:44 PM**

^ apparently, the only time it can possibly look good is when its a silhouette...

Steely Dan · #**4870** Posted **Dec 13, 2007, 7:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by Tom In Chicago

K Station is absolutely horrible from the west. . .

i have yet to detect any points on the compass that make K station look good.

Tom In Chicago · #**4871** Posted **Dec 13, 2007, 7:55 PM**

Yeah but it's really bad on that side. . . just a flat wall all the way up. . . worse than Millennium Centre. . .

Nowhereman1280 · #**4872** Posted **Dec 13, 2007, 7:57 PM**

^^^ Hey! I don't Millennium Centre is that bad! I kinda like how monolithic and monotonous it is! At least that building uses good materials like granite!

Alliance · #**4873** Posted **Dec 13, 2007, 8:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by Steely Dan

i have yet to detect any points on the compass that make K station look good.

well, it is symmetrical

jpIllInoIs · #**4874** Posted **Dec 13, 2007, 9:56 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by spyguy

http://www.chicagorealestatedaily.com/cgi-bin/page.pl?id=2166

Chicago — W. Kinzie Mixed-Use Building, 161 W. Kinzie, 250-unit mixed-use building, March 2008, $40 million.

^Hey in some of these city threads-that would be big news.

Alliance · #**4875** Posted **Dec 13, 2007, 11:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by jpIllInoIs

^Hey in some of these city threads-that would be big news.

But its clearly not here.

honte · #**4876** Posted **Dec 14, 2007, 12:30 AM**

I fail to see what is bad about the new 535 St. Clair. Aside from the cool balconies that were supposed to close off to become wintergardens, it looked rather flat and bland to me. The new one is slender and has a nice, dynamic form, and the width:height ratio seems much improved. I am looking forward to it (and the absence of the parking garage).

Re: 319 E. Illinois Street, too much SCB in one neighborhood! It looks pretty nice, I think, but would be nicer somewhere else. We are going to want some diversity over in this neighborhood very fast. It's becoming such a "blue glass" kind of place. The South Loop belongs to big Pappa, Streeterville to Solomon.

You would think as a firm that they might want to mix it up a bit more. I am very happy, however, to see a building with roughly square-shaped floor plates.

10023 · #**4877** Posted **Dec 14, 2007, 12:35 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by BVictor1

535 St. Clair

Before:

After:

Remember, this updated design is subject to change.

Well this is a fucking Greek tragedy, huh?

They went from a nice, simple, modernist design that functioned very well as infill and could have been great with quality glass, like the Jahn building nearby, to another slab-on-a-parking-podium that looks like it includes a significant quantity of painted concrete.

If Chicago must build above ground parking for every new residential development (ex. Spire), it's better to at least make it part of the tower and hide it, in a way. Building a larger podium with a narrower tower on top just draws attention to the parking podium.

SlatsGrobnik · #**4878** Posted **Dec 14, 2007, 12:35 AM**

Anybody know what has happened to the Spire thread? It seems to have vanished. Actually, the Burj Dubai thread is missing too, for that matter.

honte · #**4879** Posted **Dec 14, 2007, 1:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by 10023

They went from a nice, simple, modernist design that functioned very well as infill and could have been great with quality glass, like the Jahn building nearby, to another slab-on-a-parking-podium that looks like it includes a significant quantity of painted concrete.

The base looks like it has more going on than parking. And how did the previous building not look like floors plopped atop parking levels? It's got the slanted slabs and glass garage of Comtemporaine... pretty obvious parking to me. I think the new one actually promises to be more architecturally integrated.

There is no telling from this drawing what the materials are on this tower - concrete, some kind of cladding, etc.

the urban politician · #**4880** Posted **Dec 14, 2007, 4:41 AM**

For those of you who didn't know (and given the calibre of sleuthers we've got here, I'm guessing that list is very small), Solstice on the Park was approved today by the Plan Commission