CHICAGO | Highrise Projects & Construction, v7 - Page 732

Hourstrooper · #**14621** Posted **May 17, 2019, 1:59 AM**

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Originally Posted by BonoboZill4

I like those statues too, if they are lost I'll be bummed out.

I liked the shot too haha, had a bit of a Gotham and light vs dark edge to it

According to block club the statues were demolished today on accident..... lol

https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/05...communication/

harryc · #**14622** Posted **May 17, 2019, 2:11 AM**

May 10

May 14

BonoboZill4 · #**14623** Posted **May 17, 2019, 3:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by Hourstrooper

According to block club the statues were demolished today on accident..... lol

https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/05...communication/

Of course it did... oof

harryc · #**14624** Posted **May 17, 2019, 12:05 PM**

May 10

Dining next to the El

Dining above the El

intrepidDesign · #**14625** Posted **May 17, 2019, 3:21 PM**

I'm surprised the kinetic wall is taking so long. On a windy day, or even when a train goes by, the effect of the wall is mesmerizing and I'd be 100% happy seeing more of this covering grotesque parking podia. It's a good solution until we collectively decide to drive less. That being said, one thing I did notice was where the floor plates of the garage are, the little panels barely move. It makes sense, less air flow to move them because there's a "wall" behind them. So it does dampen the effect of an entire wall undulating, and I wonder if some of the delay in putting these panels up is figuring out how to make the effect a global one, maybe offsetting the panels somewhat?

r18tdi · #**14626** Posted **May 17, 2019, 3:36 PM**

410 S. Wabash, via the 4th Ward. They are having a meeting next week. Is this the senior housing tower from a few pages ago?

EDIT: Duh, SOUTH Wabash

Buckman821 · #**14627** Posted **May 17, 2019, 3:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by r18tdi

410 N. Wabash, via the 4th Ward. They are having a meeting next week. Is this the senior housing tower from a few pages ago?

This must be South Wabash, right?

LouisVanDerWright · #**14628** Posted **May 17, 2019, 4:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by Buckman821

This must be South Wabash, right?

Nope, they are planning to extend the L up Wabash and over the river. A tunnel will be cut through the Trump Tower right where the sign is for the bridge to pass through...

Handro · #**14629** Posted **May 17, 2019, 4:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by r18tdi

410 N. Wabash, via the 4th Ward. They are having a meeting next week. Is this the senior housing tower from a few pages ago?

How much longer until the city/loop alliance take some action to better activate the streets under wabash/lake/van buren/wells? Whatever happened to the wabash lights project...

intrepidDesign · #**14630** Posted **May 17, 2019, 5:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by Handro

How much longer until the city/loop alliance take some action to better activate the streets under wabash/lake/van buren/wells? Whatever happened to the wabash lights project...

On their website the last bit of news is from 2018 saying they were vibration testing the lights to ensure they don't crap out from all the rumbling. Makes sense. But yeah, it would be nice to see this project come to fruition. I like the idea of illuminated infrastructure. I've seen some Asian cities light up their highway over/under passes, and it looks nice, for highways. Our L tracks are vasty more sculptural and attractive and Wabash deserves some love.

Chicago_Forever · #**14631** Posted **May 17, 2019, 5:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by r18tdi

410 S. Wabash, via the 4th Ward. They are having a meeting next week. Is this the senior housing tower from a few pages ago?

EDIT: Duh, SOUTH Wabash

That senior housing/medical tower is proposed for the lot just south of this one at 424-434 S. Wabash. I love how these two proposals (I know the medical one is still questionable atm) just came out of nowhere. It would be awesome to see two nasty lots bite the dust within the next couple years.

RedCorsair87 · #**14632** Posted **May 17, 2019, 7:14 PM**

Can anyone tell if that is made of brick?

There are so many parking lots with in a few blocks of 410 S Wabash.

harryc · #**14633** Posted **May 17, 2019, 7:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by RedCorsair87

Can anyone tell if that is made of brick?

There are so many parking lots with in a few blocks of 410 S Wabash.

It is certainly not made with brick - faced with brick on the lower levels, maybee, brick precast on the upper floors - possible. (the precast with embedded brick does look pretty nice).

SamInTheLoop · #**14634** Posted **May 17, 2019, 9:00 PM**

^^ ^

How can you tell from this rendering that any type of brick is involved?

At any rate, very glad to see there may potentially be a real proposal for this part of the South Loop (as opposed to that assisted living tower, which I’m formally downgrading from conceptual to pure fantasy after perusing the deveoper’s website - hint, think Teng but on a much smaller less experienced scale), which has oodles of untapped potential.

Question: Is this the same lot (I think it may be) in which there was a concept floating around quite a few years back for a student housing tower to be designed by DeStefano successor Lothan Van Hook DeStefano? Some of you will remember. As in:

http://www.lvdarchitecture.com/proje...ing-high-rise/

If so, I wonder if this might actually be that project finally moving forward in redesigned - or actually designed- form?

The design here is not inspiring, and altogether rather pedestrian....but at least not offensively bad. And would be so great to get this lot filled in with a reasonably dense development. May these S Wabash-State-Michigan lots all disappear- every last one!

BVictor1 · #**14635** Posted **May 18, 2019, 1:41 AM**

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Originally Posted by r18tdi

410 S. Wabash, via the 4th Ward. They are having a meeting next week. Is this the senior housing tower from a few pages ago?

EDIT: Duh, SOUTH Wabash

When and where is the meeting? I didn't see it on the alderman website.

harryc · #**14636** Posted **May 18, 2019, 1:57 AM**

May 10

Looking S from the Hoxton Hotel

BVictor1 · #**14637** Posted **May 18, 2019, 2:50 AM**

Absolutely aweful...

50-60 East Randolph Street

The proposed 25-story structure includes 6,400 square feet of retail space on the ground floor, with 2 stories of parking and 22 stories of residential and amenity space above. Residential units range from 550 SF studios to 2,600 SF 4-bedroom penthouse units. The proposal includes 190 apartment units and 24 condominiums.

This is a transit served location, in close proximity to both the Washington & Wabash CTA Station and Millennium Metra Station, and will provide 70 accessory parking stalls. The garage will be accessible only via Benton Place to the north of the site. The existing triple wide curb cut on Randolph Street currently servicing the valet garage will be eliminated.

Sidewalk landscaping includes planters with low vegetation on Wabash due to the proximity of the L-tracks. Similar planter landscaping on Randolph is punctuated by four tall shade trees.

BonoboZill4 · #**14638** Posted **May 18, 2019, 4:01 AM**

It's not a stunner, but I don't see what's so awful about it... It's about what I expected for that lot's site, and definitely a MAJOR upgrade over the grey brick parking garage that has tortured us for years

Busy Bee · #**14639** Posted **May 18, 2019, 4:06 AM**

Gross. What is wrong with people?

marothisu · #**14640** Posted **May 18, 2019, 4:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by BonoboZill4

It's not a stunner, but I don't see what's so awful about it... It's about what I expected for that lot's site, and definitely a MAJOR upgrade over the grey brick parking garage that has tortured us for years

The ground level is OK - the rest of it is not good but personally it's not "awful" to me. Just nothing of note and something nobody will ever pay attention to. We should have better architecture than this but it's completely infill. From the renderings to me at least the ground level doesn't completely suck..?