CHICAGO | NEMA Chicago | 896 FT | 81 FLOORS

[lu9]

Say it aint so

[PopulusRomanus]

Nooooooo

[donnie]

I guess you could say this subject has been squared away!

[The Pimp]

Originally Posted by Busy Bee

100%

If people are photoshopping OMP out of skyline shots, I couldn't hold it against them.

Better get used to OMP since it will be here long after we're all gone. Besides, I've grown to like it. To me it looks like a retired ship looking back longingly at the Lake.

[Skyguy_7]

It took them under a week to form and pour the Cube, and couldn't have cost more than $50k. Crescent Heights Group PLEASE just give us a cube on top of this cube!

[gebs]

March 7th, 2019

So many of these buildings didn't exist just five years ago.

[r18tdi]

Originally Posted by Skyguy_7

PLEASE just give us a cube on top of this cube!

Yo dawg, I heard you like cubes...

[BonoboZill4]

Originally Posted by gebs

March 7th, 2019

So many of these buildings didn't exist just five years ago.

So far the South Loop is the victor of this cycle if we add up some arbitrary number of points between design, height, number, and skyline impact. Probably will win the next two cycles as well, given how many lots it has and how much more attractive it has grown over the last 20 years to those moving into the city

[Skyguy_7]

Originally Posted by r18tdi

Yo dawg, I heard you like cubes...

I used to be a boob guy. Then I got married and now I guess I’m a cube guy

[cozy]

I love me a woman with nice proportional cubes

[spyguy]

DSC_5773 by BartShore, on Flickr
West side looking East..Chicago by BartShore, on Flickr

[lakeshoredrive]

Originally Posted by spyguy

DSC_5773 by BartShore, on Flickr
West side looking East..Chicago by BartShore, on Flickr

It's going to be so nice to see the 78 land get developed and bring much needed density to that area

[maru2501]

yeah such a weird hole

[Flaccer05]

Love this one coming in from the south on LSD.

Mar 10

[Mr Downtown]

At least The Cube is immortalized on the cover of RTA's most recent downtown transit map.

[gebs]

Originally Posted by Flaccer05

Love this one coming in from the south on LSD.

This is definitely her best angle. When seen from the McCormick Lakeside Center, it is side by side with Sears, almost exactly the same size if flattened against a 2D plane.

It just goes to remind us how absolutely MASSIVE Sears is when a building like NEMA, which grabs headlines for its contextual height, is diminutive when seen in the greater skyline.

[pianowizard]

Originally Posted by gebs

This is definitely her best angle.

This is also the angle that makes NEMA look the most Sears-like.

Originally Posted by spyguy

Originally Posted by lakeshoredrive

It's going to be so nice to see the 78 land get developed and bring much needed density to that area

Originally Posted by maru2501

yeah such a weird hole

Indeed this is one of the less flattering views of Chicago, although NEMA is helping a fair amount.

Chicago's skyline looks much more impressive from the east and north, as spyguy's other photos have shown.

[ChiPlanner]

Not the best pics, but on my lunch hour today I noticed how the Columbus/Fairbanks hole in LSE frames NEMA from Streeterville

[gebs]

Originally Posted by ChiPlanner

Not the best pics, but on my lunch hour today I noticed how the Columbus/Fairbanks hole in LSE frames NEMA from Streeterville

I'm a huge fan of surprising vistas and vantage points, and this is one of them. Great eye, CP.

[BonoboZill4]

Originally Posted by pianowizard

Indeed this is one of the less flattering views of Chicago, although NEMA is helping a fair amount.

Chicago's skyline looks much more impressive from the east and north, as spyguy's other photos have shown.

This angle will be aided greatly by the 78 plus two more cycles filling in the south loop. We just need patience