CHICAGO | St. Regis Chicago (Vista) | 1,191 FT | 101 FLOORS

[Bombardier]

^if you look in that photo, you can see the east core form work has started to be removed. The handrails and forms hanging from the long beams are gone, and just the beams and interior forms remain. That core is topped out.

[Kumdogmillionaire]

Your red line looks perfect to me. That's definitely where we are. Good work

[The Lurker]

The comparison on the previous page just got me thinking. We're just past half way in height but as a fraction of total volume of concrete, the structure is over 2/3 complete, perhaps 3/4 if we account for the parking/podium levels. My fascination continues.

[left of center]

Will we now see Vista growing in height incrementally faster? Granted, a concrete pour will still require the same drying/setting time, but it still might speed up the crews by a about a day per floorplate (6 days instead of 7) I would think, since they will be focused on one less tower core.

Maybe I'm just impatient....

[marothisu]

^ Excellent photo.

5/28. Vista peeking out into the view from my hotel room this past weekend at Sofitel in Gold Coast (Wabash & Chestnut):

[marothisu]

5/28. Vista from the north side of the river

[the urban politician]

Originally Posted by marothisu

5/28. Vista from the north side of the river

That’s going to cast a serious shadow over many a old lady and their cat...

[BVictor1]

Originally Posted by the urban politician

That’s going to cast a serious shadow over many a old lady and their cat...

The cats are already in shade as they're being carted around in buggies with canopies.

[left of center]

Jesus.

I almost wish that it won't ever be clad in glass at all; leave it as a massive, hulking, dehumanizing beast of a building. The city will put the heads of its enemies on pikes on the roof... as a warning to all the lesser cities out there...

[Kumdogmillionaire]

No need to apologize, Nick. The photos are amazing, plus it's not like the watermark is interfering with the images haha

[Steely Dan]

off-topic discussion moved to the general chicago thread: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=208431

[NYC2ATX]

That view down Columbus Drive is going to be ICONIC from Day 1, and I'm so pumped about it.

Great photos Nick, the mouth of the river is going to be a worthy gateway of the most AAA-class cities on earth if all the current proposals come to pass. Even if half of them were built, it would still be transformative.

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by NYC2ATX

That view down Columbus Drive is going to be ICONIC from Day 1, and I'm so pumped about it.

FYI, Vista is aligned with LSD, not Columbus.

but yes, as a view-terminating tower, it's going to be an epic scene from one of chicago's most heavily trafficked thoroughfares.

[SolarWind]

May 29, 2018

[NYC2ATX]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

FYI, Vista is aligned with LSD, not Columbus.

but yes, as a view-terminating tower, it's going to be an epic scene from one of chicago's most heavily trafficked thoroughfares.

You know what, you're right. That bend inward towards Grant Park south of LSE always throws me off for a second. ...but that's even better, now LSD has the Field Museum in one direction and Vista in the other. Talk about a scenic drive

[10023]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

FYI, Vista is aligned with LSD, not Columbus.

but yes, as a view-terminating tower, it's going to be an epic scene from one of chicago's most heavily trafficked thoroughfares.

It’s a very cool view.

I’m still hoping for the day when they close Columbus to traffic and tear up the asphalt, turning it into the narrower pedestrian promenade that it was intended to be (like the one running through the middle of the Tuileries Gardens). That and covering the Metra tracks would be great outcomes from all of this residential development around the park, now that more people other than tourists are using it. But I guess I won’t hold my breath for either.

Question - is this the tower that was supposed to have an open gap at the bottom in an earlier iteration of the master plan? Because they would have actually been pretty cool given its view-terminating location. But probably not practicable for such a tall tower, either.

Lastly this seems to be one that regular Chicagoans (not skyscraper nerds) are excited for. I was at the Gleacher Center not too long ago and people were talking about it, and they’re not people who follow this stuff.

[Mister Uptempo]

Originally Posted by 10023

Question - is this the tower that was supposed to have an open gap at the bottom in an earlier iteration of the master plan? Because they would have actually been pretty cool given its view-terminating location. But probably not practicable for such a tall tower, either.

You might be thinking of the Arquitectonica Tower, a proposed 840ft. building, with a gap near the top, not the bottom. It, too, listed its address as 375 E. Wacker.


img and text src - processwire.com

A description of the project at the time read as follows-

375 East Wacker is a 76-story mixed-use skyscraper planned for the Lakeshore East area of Chicago. The façade will be mostly glass with limestone accents and the façade will be lit with LEDs which would change colors with the seasons. North Field Drive will pass under the structure. There will be a large cutout of about 20 floors in the middle of the building, something akin to the Grande Arche building in Paris. It is planned to house a five-star hotel with 224 suites, 671 condominiums and six stories of underground parking. Construction is planned to start by mid-2008.

Here's a link to the original forum thread for the Arquitectonica Tower.

[Kenmore]

+1 to the comment about the view heading north on lsd, incredible presence and impact....going to have a real broad shouldered look

[vandelay]

It's a shame something better didn't terminate the view down Lake shore drive. But then again, it could have been worse.

[Ricochet48]

Originally Posted by vandelay

It's a shame something better didn't terminate the view down Lake shore drive. But then again, it could have been worse.

Looks pretty decent to me??