CHICAGO | Boom rundown - everything over 12 floors. v5 - Page 435

harryc · #**8681** Posted **Aug 28, 2008, 2:47 AM**

Putting in caissons
Aug 26

Aug 27
The one being hand adjusted 2 days ago

Precisely located rebar.

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Originally Posted by SolarWind

Thanks, Harry. By the way, your photos have really been amazing lately. The quality is really top-notch.

H

Upgraded to a Panasonic DMC TZ4

harryc · #**8682** Posted **Aug 28, 2008, 2:54 AM**

This sound good.

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McCaffery hired architect Joseph Antunovich to work up the design. The historic Flair House originated in the late 1800s and gets its name from the Flair Communications Incorporated advertising agency that has called the building home for years. Flair executive Lee Flaherty also happens to have founded the Chicago Marathon. The development plans are designed to compliment the existing structure and sport a traditional brick facade on the lower levels.

Best Chicago Condos

The old building

Squat rebar cages

The site

A few awards

harryc · #**8683** Posted **Aug 28, 2008, 2:57 AM**

Aug 26

Aug 27
Crane comes down.

harryc · #**8684** Posted **Aug 28, 2008, 3:04 AM**

Aug 22

Aug 23

Aug 26

Aug 27

honte · #**8685** Posted **Aug 28, 2008, 4:35 AM**

Wow, Harry.

harryc · #**8686** Posted **Aug 28, 2008, 11:18 AM**

Pump head (?) comes down. ( were there 2 ? )

Dr. Taco · #**8687** Posted **Aug 28, 2008, 5:10 PM**

harry, those were dope pictures. I showed them to my coworkers, and they were amazed as well. now you gotta get that logo out of them and print a couple out

BVictor1 · #**8688** Posted **Aug 28, 2008, 6:31 PM**

Superior 110
08/27/08

Breezyfingers · #**8689** Posted **Aug 28, 2008, 7:23 PM**

Silver Tower

Breezyfingers · #**8690** Posted **Aug 28, 2008, 7:31 PM**

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This is beautiful; I especially like that you caught the chimney at the Union Park Fieldhouse. The brickwork is great.

BVictor1 · #**8691** Posted **Aug 28, 2008, 9:29 PM**

SoNo
08/28/08

1400 Museum Park

Taft · #**8692** Posted **Aug 29, 2008, 4:31 PM**

Sorry for the very crappy camera phone quality (and through my office window to boot). But you can just make out the windows they have started to install on the levels just above the parking garage.

Anyone know if this is the final facade? The windows look surprisingly black for a tower named "silver."

Taft

Taft · #**8693** Posted **Aug 29, 2008, 4:33 PM**

D'oh!

Just noticed breezy has beat me to the punch. Nice work!

Taft

harryc · #**8694** Posted **Aug 29, 2008, 5:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by harryc

Pump head (?) comes down. ( were there 2 ? )

Checked again today, definitely one of the nice (powered ?) blue arms on top of the tower, the yellow one was probably from the garage area.

BVictor1 · #**8695** Posted **Aug 30, 2008, 6:19 PM**

08/27/08

i_am_hydrogen · #**8696** Posted **Aug 31, 2008, 2:46 AM**

Taken today (various projects). I wish the framing were better, but it was hand-held.

jcchii · #**8697** Posted **Aug 31, 2008, 3:34 AM**

wow. that's great

SolarWind · #**8698** Posted **Aug 31, 2008, 6:37 AM**

August 25, 2008

April 29 article on the demolition:
http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2008/04/vademolition.html

SolarWind · #**8699** Posted **Aug 31, 2008, 6:53 AM**

What a remarkable picture, i_am_hydrogen! I like how 111 South Wacker pops in that shot. I'm so used to seeing it from the ground looking up that this view is a pleasant change.

denizen467 · #**8700** Posted **Aug 31, 2008, 7:21 AM**

The former CME trading floor podium now sees the light. The first window hole has been opened in the base between 10 South and 30 South. Didn't have my camera with me though.

Are there any renderings out there for this project?

And were Fujikawa Johnson (I think they still exist) hired for this? Not that that would be necessary, but if an artist's work must be altered 25 years later, there is some dignity in allowing the artist to handle the changes, if they are still around.