CHICAGO | Highrise Projects & Construction, v7 - Page 708

ardecila · #**14141** Posted **Mar 27, 2019, 11:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by r18tdi

They're currently tearing down the car wash at 1125 W. Van Buren for a different project. That might be what you saw?
IIRC Harry Potter was redesigned and is going back before the city for zoning approval.

Yeah, there are several highrise proposals going on here. This is a combined rendering showing all the current plans, except the "Harry Potter" lightning bolt design is being re-done after Related bought the site.

The tower currently under site prep (I believe) is the black tower in the foreground. Or possibly the red brick and glass tower on the left, which looks oddly similar to the new Wicker Park Collection tower...

Curbed

Hourstrooper · #**14142** Posted **Mar 27, 2019, 11:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by ardecila

Yeah, there are several highrise proposals going on here. This is a combined rendering showing all the current plans, except the "Harry Potter" lightning bolt design is being re-done after Related bought the site.

The tower currently under site prep (I believe) is the black tower in the foreground. Or possibly the red brick and glass tower on the left, which looks oddly similar to the new Wicker Park Collection tower...

Curbed

correct that's the one, the black foreground tower I misjudged it while driving past.

marothisu · #**14143** Posted **Mar 28, 2019, 12:03 AM**

Yes, it's the black building in the foreground. Remember, odd numbered addresses are on the south side of E-W streets (and east side of N-S streets). The other buildings are on the north side, so they'd be even numbered addresses - and thus not this one as the address of the building being torn down is 1125 W Van Buren.

harryc · #**14144** Posted **Mar 28, 2019, 12:37 PM**

March 22

Old Crane

New Crane

Dino !

Steely Dan · #**14145** Posted **Mar 28, 2019, 3:19 PM**

off topic discussion moved to the general chicago thread: https://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=208431

harryc · #**14146** Posted **Mar 28, 2019, 8:16 PM**

March 23

Location - Location - Location

harryc · #**14147** Posted **Mar 28, 2019, 10:13 PM**

March 23

BonoboZill4 · #**14148** Posted **Mar 28, 2019, 11:01 PM**

That Father and Sons replacement building is massive

harryc · #**14149** Posted **Mar 28, 2019, 11:41 PM**

March 23

harryc · #**14150** Posted **Mar 28, 2019, 11:55 PM**

March 25

Drilling continues

You know it's serious when they displace the valets.

BuildThemTaller · #**14151** Posted **Mar 29, 2019, 12:17 AM**

633 W North is looking great. I wish I still lived along the Brown Line so I could watch it rise every morning. There's something deeply satisfying watching a strip mall bite the dust and be replaced by a big, urban development like this this, especially one that doesn't have a huge podium.

harryc · #**14152** Posted **Mar 29, 2019, 12:50 AM**

March 25 26 and 27

Setting up and executing the load test - eventually 160 piles up to 110' deep, down to hardpan.

PittsburghPA · #**14153** Posted **Mar 29, 2019, 12:57 AM**

Harry would you mind explaining what is going on in your last pictures at 717 S Clark?

Great updates today!

the urban politician · #**14154** Posted **Mar 29, 2019, 1:17 AM**

Often times the construction is way cooler than the final product, it seems

mark0 · #**14155** Posted **Mar 29, 2019, 1:43 AM**

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Originally Posted by BonoboZill4

That Father and Sons replacement building is massive

It is. And its got a ways to go. When people in the neighborhood complained about the height and scale they were universally lampooned as NIMBYs on these and other boards but in this case I think they were correct. Once the near north high school land gets redeveloped I cant wait to see what the park / open space behind this building is turned into. I heard practice fields for Lincoln Park High but not sure if thats still on the table.

harryc · #**14156** Posted **Mar 29, 2019, 1:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by PittsburghPA

Harry would you mind explaining what is going on in your last pictures at 717 S Clark?

Great updates today!

Static load testing
[this is to the best of my knowledge, corrections clarifications, and suggestions appreciated.]
[If you have questions about UNIX I can answer those authoritatively ]

There are 2 columns of 4 piles each - with a pair of big red beams across the top, this is the "static" part.

The pile in the middle, the test subject, has a 1000 ton hydraulic jack on the top which pushes against the big read beam, pushing (loading) the test pile and driving it further into the ground.

Measure how far it is pushed with the specified load.

Fvn · #**14157** Posted **Mar 29, 2019, 1:48 AM**

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Originally Posted by PittsburghPA

Harry would you mind explaining what is going on in your last pictures at 717 S Clark?

Great updates today!

Static load testing. IIRC it tests the axial compression on the piles by pushing down on the pile (driven to design specs) the jack is placed on top of. I would imagine they also look at the uplift on the other 8 piles but I think mainly the compression/capacity of the center pile is the main interest.

To confirm the design specs to see if they need to make any changes

harryc · #**14158** Posted **Mar 29, 2019, 2:09 AM**

March 25

harryc · #**14159** Posted **Mar 29, 2019, 2:22 AM**

March 25

rgarri4 · #**14160** Posted **Mar 29, 2019, 2:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by BuildThemTaller

Until rgarri puts together a better render, here's my incredibly crude drawing of how the 300 N Michigan Ave tower will look from Wolf Point.

Sorry for the delay. I'm in the middle of the process process of making a clean version of my model so that it runs better so currently half of the buildings are missing. But here's shots of the BKL proposal. Surprisingly it doesn't stand out too much from a lot of angles.