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J_M_Tungsten · #**241** Posted **Feb 2, 2011, 10:04 PM**

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J_M_Tungsten · #**242** Posted **Feb 19, 2011, 3:22 PM**

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Bonus Midwest Ortho Building

patriotizzy · #**243** Posted **Feb 19, 2011, 8:52 PM**

^^^^ That fist picture looks awesome.

J_M_Tungsten · #**244** Posted **Mar 4, 2011, 5:57 PM**

So could someone explain what they think is going on here. There is nothing in the renderings that would call for them to dig this approximately 8 foot deep rectangular hole?

LPRBA · #**245** Posted **Mar 11, 2011, 6:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by J_M_Tungsten

So could someone explain what they think is going on here. There is nothing in the renderings that would call for them to dig this approximately 8 foot deep rectangular hole?

That is a storm detention system that is being constructed for the East Tower. Once completed, you will not know that it even exists.

Nowhereman1280 · #**246** Posted **Mar 11, 2011, 6:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by LPRBA

That is a storm detention system that is being constructed for the East Tower. Once completed, you will not know that it even exists.

Interesting, is that for roof runoff or sidewalk runoff or what? Do you work on the project? Why not just funnel all of the runoff into the sewer? Or is the water to be used for something like watering the grass?

J_M_Tungsten · #**247** Posted **Mar 11, 2011, 7:03 PM**

They are actually lower these huge concrete structures down there with "storm trap" written on it. Thanks LPRBA.

J_M_Tungsten · #**248** Posted **Mar 14, 2011, 2:04 PM**

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J_M_Tungsten · #**249** Posted **Mar 29, 2011, 4:07 PM**

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i_am_hydrogen · #**250** Posted **Mar 29, 2011, 5:00 PM**

It's looking great. Thanks JM.

vandelay · #**251** Posted **Mar 29, 2011, 6:43 PM**

It looks like this medical complex is straight out of the mid-century. That ortho building looks like a supersized Mies Van der Rohe. The other building looks like a futuristic Louis Kahn.

Pretty snazzy!

patriotizzy · #**252** Posted **Mar 29, 2011, 6:54 PM**

Ohhhh very nice. I like the base a lot.

ardecila · #**253** Posted **Mar 29, 2011, 7:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by Nowhereman1280

Interesting, is that for roof runoff or sidewalk runoff or what? Do you work on the project? Why not just funnel all of the runoff into the sewer? Or is the water to be used for something like watering the grass?

I'm guessing this is so that Rush doesn't have to install some gigantic sewer (ripping up all the surrounding streets) to collect their runoff. Building a retention pond on-site allows them to store the runoff and then release it slowly - but a huge pond makes no sense in a city, so they bury it under a plaza.

Beta_Magellan · #**254** Posted **Mar 30, 2011, 2:35 AM**

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Originally Posted by vandelay

It looks like this medical complex is straight out of the mid-century. That ortho building looks like a supersized Mies Van der Rohe. The other building looks like a futuristic Louis Kahn.

Pretty snazzy!

The boxy-organic thing also reminds me of the old Prentice Women’s—boxy base with curved upper stories coming out of it; I’ve seen it described as a somewhat autobiographical building for Goldberg, implying how he had grown from the old Bauhaus aesthetic (Mies was his teacher). Let’s hope they can find some use for that as its descendant heads towards completion:

Image from Preservation Nation’s article on Prentice.

vandelay · #**255** Posted **Mar 30, 2011, 12:43 PM**

I think you're absolutely right, that's a much more apt comparison than to Kahn. No wonder why these buildings seem to fit in so well. The architects seem to have made sure that they followed in the footsteps of some of Chicago's best.

spyguy · #**256** Posted **Apr 2, 2011, 8:11 PM**

Rush University Medical Center by Cragin Spring, on Flickr

patriotizzy · #**257** Posted **Apr 3, 2011, 3:29 AM**

^^^
Wow, that picture only makes the building look that much better.

eaguir3 · #**258** Posted **Apr 4, 2011, 1:56 AM**

that building just dominated the west side now

Lecom · #**259** Posted **Apr 4, 2011, 7:26 PM**

Mixed feelings about this one. On one hand, it's original, expressive, sleek and downright awesome, but on the other it's an oppressive looming mass that reminds me of some inhumanely scaled 60's architecture. The lowrise glass portion, however, is just about perfect.

sentinel · #**260** Posted **Apr 5, 2011, 1:49 AM**

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Originally Posted by Lecom

Mixed feelings about this one. On one hand, it's original, expressive, sleek and downright awesome, but on the other it's an oppressive looming mass that reminds me of some inhumanely scaled 60's architecture. The lowrise glass portion, however, is just about perfect.

I think both Rush and the architect both did the absolute best they could and it shows - It's definitely a big building, that's for certain, but I don't think it's as monolithic as it COULD have been - Perkins + Will took a relatively small site and instead of just creating a large box for the whole 14 stories, they found an (excellent) way of breaking down the form, while still maintaining the programmatic requirements of the hospital. Imagine if the whole building had been designed as one giant cube..I think that would have been much more oppressive - but fortunately, as it stands, the combination of the attractive, simple glass 'box' with the incredible cross-shaped top works extremely well together