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Ricochet48 · #**6421** Posted **Oct 9, 2019, 4:50 AM**

They've got to be adding some mesh or louvers, right?

No way they would just leave open concrete for snow, birds, and general ugliness?

RedCorsair87 · #**6422** Posted **Oct 9, 2019, 2:50 PM**

Agreed. I assume black screens will be add. The exposed concrete looks like shit.

LouisVanDerWright · #**6423** Posted **Oct 9, 2019, 4:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by Ricochet48

They've got to be adding some mesh or louvers, right?

No way they would just leave open concrete for snow, birds, and general ugliness?

Yes, there will obviously be louvers like the mech floors.

I don't know how anyone can look at Nick and Harry's photo sets and be like "yup, this building sucks". It's like some emerald city shit and they haven't even cleaned the glass yet...

cozy · #**6424** Posted **Oct 9, 2019, 5:24 PM**

original renderings depicted an open area with framing and no screens

after recently published text we know there will be a screen for sure

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The 83rd floor, with its 25-foot-high ceilings, will be unoccupied. Instead of selling the pricey real estate, Gang and the engineers decided to surround the floor with a permeable screen to allow the wind to blow through the building to reduce the tower’s sway.

https://news.wttw.com/2019/09/10/vis...kamin-explains

I vaguely remember the tribune also wrote about the final screen decision i can't find the article though

SteelMonkey · #**6425** Posted **Oct 9, 2019, 6:24 PM**

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Mic drop....

kolchak · #**6426** Posted **Oct 9, 2019, 7:55 PM**

Outrageous updates Nick and Harry. Amazing tower.

AusTex · #**6427** Posted **Oct 10, 2019, 12:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by harryc

Oct 7

Will this tower have two bands of lighting around the top? The upper most small band and then the third down, that looks like railroad tracks, appear to my eyes to be perfect tracks, or bands, for lighting. Does anyone know the lighting plans?

jchase79 · #**6428** Posted **Oct 10, 2019, 9:07 PM**

In the new pictures I noticed what looked to be some sort of framing on the cantilevered lower section that has the different style windows. Are they finally installing that section or is that framing for something else?

doomsdayprepper · #**6429** Posted **Oct 11, 2019, 12:15 PM**

"Star-chitect" is a thing now. Check this nice marketing video on a news channel.

https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/fi...er-vista-tower

doomsdayprepper · #**6430** Posted **Oct 11, 2019, 12:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by jchase79

In the new pictures I noticed what looked to be some sort of framing on the cantilevered lower section that has the different style windows. Are they finally installing that section or is that framing for something else?

Yes, the framing is for that section. Looks rad.

cozy · #**6431** Posted **Oct 11, 2019, 7:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by AusTex

Will this tower have two bands of lighting around the top? The upper most small band and then the third down, that looks like railroad tracks, appear to my eyes to be perfect tracks, or bands, for lighting. Does anyone know the lighting plans?

I wouldn't get too excited that framing is likely for spandrel glass

Donnie77 · #**6432** Posted **Oct 11, 2019, 7:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by doomsdayprepper

"Star-chitect" is a thing now. Check this nice marketing video on a news channel.

https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/fi...er-vista-tower

So wait there's going to be a pool on the very top of Vista or she misunderstood what a slosh buckets is?

never mind i heard terrace....

PittsburghPA · #**6433** Posted **Oct 11, 2019, 8:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by Donnie77

So wait there's going to be a pool on the very top of Vista or she misunderstood what a slosh buckets is?

never mind i heard terrace....

Perhaps she meant the last setback (I believe 78th floor).

Ricochet48 · #**6434** Posted **Oct 11, 2019, 11:00 PM**

Hmmm Hancock pool is on 44th. China has some really high ones, like the Ritz in HKG and the new one in Tianjin.

That terrace is going to be legend though!

bnk · #**6435** Posted **Oct 12, 2019, 12:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by Donnie77

So wait there's going to be a pool on the very top of Vista or she misunderstood what a slosh buckets is?

never mind i heard terrace....

I didn't read it but I know there is going to be like a 400,000 gallon liquid slosh water semi mass tuned damper up there to limit the sway. Nothing you could swim in. lol.

If anyone can correct me that I am wrong I would like to hear it.

Edit I watched it the outdoor terrace pool on the top is not a damper. It will certainly be the tallest pool in North America I am sure about that....

But I am pretty sure I heard about the liquid non pool damper I was talking about on this project.....

EDIT

Yep I was right again, I'm not losing it yet. lol

We also viewed the outside of one of six tanks tucked in the tower’s top. The tanks will hold more than 400,000 gallons of water. When the wind pushes the tower one way, the water will slosh in the opposite direction, joining with the blow-through floor to counteract sway.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/colum...nim-story.html

bnk · #**6436** Posted **Oct 12, 2019, 12:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by Donnie77

So wait there's going to be a pool on the very top of Vista or she misunderstood what a slosh buckets is?

never mind i heard terrace....

https://flow-engineering.com/liquid-mass-damper/

https://avestia.com/ICMEM2014_Proceedings/papers/68.pdf

Very high level structural engineering stuff going on in this building for sure. Not sure if it was included in the original blueprints but neither was the blow through level.

The wind tunnel testing probably required both.

For that reason alone it added on the height of the building from the original numbers.

Carry over from my last post

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Edit I watched it the outdoor terrace pool on the top is not a damper. It will certainly be the tallest pool in North America I am sure about that....

But I am pretty sure I heard about the liquid non pool damper I was talking about on this project.....

EDIT

Yep I was right again, I'm not losing it yet. lol

"We also viewed the outside of one of six tanks tucked in the tower’s top. The tanks will hold more than 400,000 gallons of water. When the wind pushes the tower one way, the water will slosh in the opposite direction, joining with the blow-through floor to counteract sway. "

https://www.chicagotribune.com/colum...nim-story.html

chris08876 · #**6437** Posted **Oct 12, 2019, 2:52 AM**

9-24-2019 Chicago Sunrise from Helicopter by Craig, on Flickr

BVictor1 · #**6438** Posted **Oct 12, 2019, 7:32 AM**

A few October shots...

10.02.19

10.04.19

10.05.19

Donnie77 · #**6439** Posted **Oct 12, 2019, 8:19 AM**

Wow Chris, just wow...

Ogdenman36 · #**6440** Posted **Oct 14, 2019, 6:52 PM**

This is such a beautiful building. As was posted on here, the Fox32 segment is all over social media and its funny that even people who are not geeks like us with architecure say that the blow through hole exterior as shown in the clip when done kinda ruins the entire building

I think that is a bit much, but it defintly does not add to the beauty. Maybe it will grow on me with time.