CHICAGO | Highrise Projects & Construction, v7 - Page 450

F1 Tommy · #**8981** Posted **Sep 8, 2017, 2:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by aaron38

Large mature trees take 30 years to grow. There's only so much that can be done when starting from scratch.

How about some nice big plastic trees in this sea of cement called Chicago, make them Palm Trees and they can stay year round.

F1 Tommy · #**8982** Posted **Sep 8, 2017, 4:46 PM**

But not many with leaves year round. It would be a cool idea to have a few fake Palm Trees like a Hollywood set in a few areas. Also more evergreen and pine trees. This place looks pretty bare in the winter.

Bonsai Tree · #**8983** Posted **Sep 8, 2017, 5:03 PM**

^Is that a joke?

Handro · #**8984** Posted **Sep 8, 2017, 6:12 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by F1 Tommy

But not many with leaves year round. It would be a cool idea to have a few fake Palm Trees like a Hollywood set in a few areas. Also more evergreen and pine trees. This place looks pretty bare in the winter.

I'll take the palm tree suggestion as a joke but definitely agree that there needs to be more evergreens. The grey/beige-ness of the city in the winter is really mentally draining.

HomrQT · #**8985** Posted **Sep 8, 2017, 10:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by bcp

cutout version is vastly superior...have been wondering how they would treat the halsted street level... pretty damn good for a large project

To each his own, but I prefer the fuller designs to the cutout ones.

pilsenarch · #**8986** Posted **Sep 9, 2017, 2:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by HomrQT

To each his own, but I prefer the fuller designs to the cutout ones.

Oh! we're voting? The 'cut-out' version is vastly superior to the previous version that to my eye, reminds me of 80's suburban spec office park vocabulary...

harryc · #**8987** Posted **Sep 9, 2017, 3:47 PM**

Aug 28

Real brickwork

Cleared for the next phase

Sept 8

jc5680 · #**8988** Posted **Sep 9, 2017, 4:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by harryc

Aug 28

Yikes… it's like they couldn't make a decision on what materials options to use, so they chose all of them. Removing even one of the brick colors or one of the window wall treatments would have gone a long way making this less frenetic.

harryc · #**8989** Posted **Sep 9, 2017, 5:55 PM**

Sept 1

Sept 6

HomrQT · #**8990** Posted **Sep 9, 2017, 6:02 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by pilsenarch

Oh! we're voting? The 'cut-out' version is vastly superior to the previous version that to my eye, reminds me of 80's suburban spec office park vocabulary...

The new cutout version reminds me of shiity modern art that people pretend to like to seem more cultured. It's a building that visually looks like it's not whole. I prefer the big brawny boxes that fill an area and have more of a solid presence to the eye.

spyguy · #**8991** Posted **Sep 9, 2017, 8:15 PM**

808 W Van Buren

GEMS Upper School - revised

harryc · #**8992** Posted **Sep 10, 2017, 10:41 PM**

Sept 6

harryc · #**8993** Posted **Sep 11, 2017, 12:14 AM**

Sept 5

Sept 8

harryc · #**8994** Posted **Sep 11, 2017, 12:47 AM**

Sept 8

IrishIllini · #**8995** Posted **Sep 11, 2017, 8:43 PM**

May be an unpopular opinion, but I actually like the glassy portion of Atrium Village. The brick facade along Wells and Division is awful. The two tone brick looks awful. The colors do not work well together at all IMO. It looks cheap. Precast could very well have been better.

maru2501 · #**8996** Posted **Sep 11, 2017, 10:15 PM**

^ I love how it is bulking up the skyline to the NW

that is my favorite thing to happen

HomrQT · #**8997** Posted **Sep 12, 2017, 5:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by ChiXP

Yeah cuz it's hard to find a box in Chicago.

Don't ever voice this opinion in public. We don't need any more of that.

I say traditional styles like real art deco and beaux arts need to make a comeback. But until then, the avant garde, asymmetrical stuff looks like tacky garbage. Give me brawny Chicago box style instead. Something that plugs right into the street grid, a square peg for a square lot.

Domer2019 · #**8998** Posted **Sep 12, 2017, 6:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by HomrQT

Something that plugs right into the street grid, a square peg for a square lot.

You're in luck

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=217443

harryc · #**8999** Posted **Sep 12, 2017, 12:35 PM**

Sept 8

From Left to right - 635 N Well - 640 N Wells - 675 N Wells (Marlowe), 676 N LaSalle (Bentham), and just out of frame FLATs river North.

Balconies - relitively near street level.

Adjusting the size of the column

[contractor is Adjustable Forms]

Climbing higher

Steely Dan · #**9000** Posted **Sep 12, 2017, 3:00 PM**

Here's a little update on the highrise proposals currently in the works for downtown Evanston.

Of course, Evanston is a notorious bastion of NIMBYism, so this is all extremely "wait and see".

Northlight Tower - ~419' - 37 Floors - res./hotel

source: http://evanstonnow.com/story/real-estate.../2017-09-06/78244/northlight-tower-would

601 Davis - ~340' - 33 Floors - residential

source: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/realestat...anston-may-get-its-tallest-ever-building[/QUOTE]

The Albion - 178' - 16 Floors - residential

source: https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/7/3/1583...riented-apartment-development-renderings

1714 Chicago - 11 Floors - office

source: http://evanstonnow.com/breaking/government/bill-smith/2017-09-11/78279/recap-city-council

1815 Ridge - 10 Floors - senior living

source: http://evanstonnow.com/story/real-estate...ior-housing-on-ridge-wins-final-approval

831 Emerson - 9 Floors - residential

source: http://evanstonnow.com/story/real-estate...24/vote-postponed-on-emerson-development