CHICAGO | 400 N Lake Shore Drive | 851 FT & 765 FT | 73 & ? FLOORS - Page 134

MorganChi · #**2661** Posted **Feb 5, 2025, 4:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by left of center

Beats the water filled hole in the ground that its been for the better part of two decades.

I agree, this will make the skyline look a lot more balanced. Having a 2000 foot tower right on the lake front would overpower the skyline and ruin the proportions. It would need to be more centrally placed, along the river or on the Loop, for it to not stick out like the sore thumb.

I'm still holding out hope for Tribune East, even if its most likely shelved.

Yea I disagree, this is mouth of Chicago , something tall and nice should had been placed here. They should’ve use this land as somewhat the door entering the west of United States. Something better than the arch in st.Louis

sentinel · #**2662** Posted **Feb 5, 2025, 4:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by MorganChi

Yea I disagree

Cool

Nouvellecosse · #**2663** Posted **Feb 5, 2025, 5:58 PM**

I agree that the Spire proposal was too out of scale (and I wasn't personally a fan of the design). I also agree that the site calls for a landmark but being a landmark doesn't necessary require enormous scale. Especially in such a prominent location where it wouldn't need to rise above everything else to be seen.

tusken raider · #**2664** Posted **Feb 5, 2025, 7:17 PM**

also this towers first floors are visable now it also looks like there doing the footprint for tower 2 and the podium? (lets hope phase 2 at least becomes a supertall)

r18tdi · #**2665** Posted **Feb 5, 2025, 9:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by tusken raider

it also looks like there doing the footprint for tower 2 and the podium?

Nope. They're using that area to stage and build the garage for phase 1.

BVictor1 · #**2666** Posted **Feb 6, 2025, 9:12 PM**

Adding to the mix; 5 floors down and 68 more to go.

02.06.25

left of center · #**2667** Posted **Feb 7, 2025, 3:26 PM**

Great pics, BVic!

tusken raider · #**2668** Posted **Feb 9, 2025, 2:34 AM**

Im so hyped for this tower this summer gonna deliver some epic construction images

BVictor1 · #**2669** Posted **Feb 10, 2025, 4:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by Garynewman

The architectural boat tour guides finally have new material to work with this summer

Yes we do! This along with the Riverline project and the casino.

02.07.25

02.09.25

Skip being installed on the southeast corner.

Ricochet48 · #**2670** Posted **Feb 11, 2025, 2:27 PM**

This is jumping up quickly. Will be exciting to see it rise this Spring/Summer.

Any estimates on when we expect it to get topped off?

dreamy-developer · #**2671** Posted **Feb 11, 2025, 2:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by Ricochet48

This is jumping up quickly. Will be exciting to see it rise this Spring/Summer.

Any estimates on when we expect it to get topped off?

I also would be curious - I love estimating the pace at how fast floors are done each week/month.

tusken raider · #**2672** Posted **Feb 11, 2025, 9:34 PM**

yeah i kinda wanna know how many floors are going up per week so we can estimate when this bad boy will top out

sentinel · #**2673** Posted **Feb 12, 2025, 1:13 AM**

If other recent high-rises have been any indication, and assuming that many variables are the same, I would make an educated guess of 3-4 days/per floor, not including weather delays or other, unforeseen issues.

tusken raider · #**2674** Posted **Feb 13, 2025, 5:53 PM**

yeah going by that it should top out sometime between September and november?

DZH22 · #**2675** Posted **Feb 13, 2025, 9:09 PM**

Which of the 2 towers is currently out of the ground and growing, the 851' or 765'?

Steely Dan · #**2676** Posted **Feb 13, 2025, 9:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by DZH22

Which of the 2 towers is currently out of the ground and growing, the 851' or 765'?

The taller one is U/C right now.

Tower 2 is still just a "plan" at this point.

Steely Dan · #**2677** Posted **Feb 14, 2025, 2:15 AM**

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cloudbod · #**2678** Posted **Feb 14, 2025, 4:23 PM**

Something interesting about this project-- and I'm not sure how this will affect the concrete-forming process-- is that the concrete floorplates on the north and south faces actually include the bay window shapes!

Hard to see in the above pics (because the floors with bay windows are covered by the yellow screening) but it's pretty noticeable in person.

I don't know much about modern bay windows-- is this typically how they're done? I always assumed they were cantilevered with steel.

ardecila · #**2679** Posted **Feb 14, 2025, 6:22 PM**

There's no one way to build a bay window.

For a highrise like this, they already selected a flat plate concrete structural system (which is the standard for residential highrises in Chicago) so it makes sense they would do the bay windows with concrete as well, rather than bring in a whole different system. In a small neighborhood building framed in wood or steel, they might do bay windows in a different way.

tusken raider · #**2680** Posted **Feb 17, 2025, 5:25 PM**

does anyone think that the condo/apartment market will get better and related will make this tower taller for more units?