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I love your persistence and enthusiasm. I know you want more original compliments, as the conventional ones have been worn out. How about:
That's rock-a-dacious!
Thanks, though if you ever run out of creative ideas, you could always wire me $5 (make it $10, or even $20). The model runs on beer and pizza just as much as my 420W power supply.
STR, I swear the Chicago Chamber of Commerce should hire you. Your models do nothing but excite the imagination.
My favorite proposals are Fordham Spire and Aqua, but your renderings of 300 N. LaSalle are really winning me over. It possesses an extreme aura of verticality.
and the highlight is location. I drove by it again across the river on wacker yesterday. aesthetically it will do a lot to draw the skyline north and west. and it gets free points for eliminating the parking garage. we need a nice big building right there.
wolf point next
and the highlight is location. I drove by it again across the river on wacker yesterday. aesthetically it will do a lot to draw the skyline north and west. and it gets free points for eliminating the parking garage. we need a nice big building right there.
wolf point next
I could go for a tall building at Wolf Point, but I think it should be slender and set back. As close to the Sun Times/Holiday Inn building as they can get it. Wolf Point should have as much open green space as possible. Even better if we could get a kayak launch there too.
It'd be cool if they could incorporate the neon PARKING sign into the 300 N Lasalle somehow...kind of like facadectomy. Think "Heritage".
Only half-joking....signs like that will soon be totally gone from existence, and some day we'll bemoan the loss of the future-retro gems from the 40s-60s.
Last edited by VivaLFuego; Mar 24, 2006 at 5:24 AM.
Stopped by the site today and watched the wrecking ball go at the parking lot - was really interesting to watch. They were beating the heck out of the garage - that thing is really well built. PARKING sign is still going strong on the south side. Interesting thing - they are taking it down north to south, but they left two of the stairwells standing for now. Looks odd.
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I'm just glad that 400 North LaSalle will be totally obscured (at least from this perspective) after the 300 North building is completed. To me, that one is the most offensive of the concrete hulks in River North. (Call me crazy, but I think Grand Plaza is a soaring paeon to beauty compared with 400 N.) Then we just need them to build the 645 West Madison Towers to offset the Presidential Turds, err Towers in the West Loop. If you can't tear uglies down, the least you can do is build pretty things to hide them, n'est pas?
^Yep. . . all those pre-cast buildings in River North suck. . . looks like they got a deal on the same paint that they use for the Graffiti Blasters program. . . and like the Graffiti Blasters once a wall has been covered they essentially gave the artists a blank canvass to work on. . . so on that note perhaps all the new glass clad buildings will stand out that much more against the drab back-drop of painted concrete River North high-rises. . .
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It'd be cool if they could incorporate the neon PARKING sign into the 300 N Lasalle somehow...kind of like facadectomy. Think "Heritage".
Only half-joking....signs like that will soon be totally gone from existence, and some day we'll bemoan the loss of the future-retro gems from the 40s-60s.
You are completely correct! One of the casualties of the prettifying of the Loop is that all the funk and kitsch are disappearing.
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