Uggh that green's gotta go. I used to think and hope from the El/bus that it was insulation or something to eventually get covered up. But now that I see those ugly green door coverings..ugh. Looks nasty and completely out of place, colorwise, with the rest of the building.
How does the top of this building look vs. the original renderings? I don't remember that hat nor the lime green. This developer gets an F in terms of delivering promised product if that green isn't covered up.
Uggh that green's gotta go. I used to think and hope from the El/bus that it was insulation or something to eventually get covered up. But now that I see those ugly green door coverings..ugh. Looks nasty and completely out of place, colorwise, with the rest of the building.
I think the green details were a personal request from Lucien Lagrange...it was his last middle finger to the city of Chicago.
The green is craptacular. At least you other ssp folks can be done with it by simply moving to another thread. My computer is next to the window and I have clear view of the Elysian with it's head infection.
I was walking past the Elysian last night and at first I thought there was a boisterous wedding being held there - there was a limobus and a lot of guys wearing black suits. But then I got closer and there were also about 10 cops keeping a watchful eye on a group of protesters chanting in French and holding signs in French. They were all dark black (except for a white walker-by who joined them), and they could have been African or Haitian. I don't know enough French to get the geist of what they were saying, but after a few minutes they got louder, the cops had a quick group meeting, and then the limobus, a towncar and both marked and unmarked police escort on the front and back of the convoy took off down State Street, sirens on full.
Anyone have any idea who/what would have been going on last night there to warrant both a large police escort and French-speaking protesters?
A few weeks ago, the previously completed Mansard roof was encased in scaffolding - apparently some touch-ups were required to the original construction. Now, similar rehab work is going on in the carriage court, and that's the source of the photo's you see above. The usual ugly open scaffolding just wouldn't do, so the building has created fabric replicas of the facades to place over the scaffolding.
It's one of the trippiest architectural visions you're likely to see. In it's emulation of a dead style, Lagrange's designs are already a fake. So now, with the fabric hangings, we have a fake of a fake. (Is it too much to hope that the irony was intentional?) The way the hangings droop and crinkle, it's like the courtyard facades are melting under the heat of their own strained artifice. Christo couldn't have done it any better.
Pictures by Lynn Becker from the article.
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Man, the green arches at the crown are just shit icing on the shit cake.
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Surely that green has to come off at some point? And I really do wish they would just add the roof spikes like in the original design! I think it would honestly make the building look so much better...
Also has any/will any retail go in along the State Street side of the building?
Oh man, this was a relief. When I saw the Elysian from my roof, I thought my eyes were messing with me as I looked down at the carriage court. "The facade looks like....it's blowing in the wind?!?!? wtf
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that sounds like a line from Lahey on Trailer Park Boys.
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