CHICAGO | Tribune Tower Addition | 1,442 FT | 113 FLOORS

[Rocket49]

Other than looking very cool, is there an advantage to having concave sides on the east and west sides of the building?

[Notyrview]

Yeah so much of this depends on how much steam’s left in the economy. I’d say 50/50 chance of getting built. Here’s to more steam.

[F1 Tommy]

Very nice.

[Khantilever]

Originally Posted by Kngkyle

Depending on if the 1422 is the structure height or the roof height, this could actually surpass Sears in the 'official' sense because the 'claws' on top of this would count as being architectural.

Doesn’t look like it, according to the Tribune’s front page article on this. Apparently they’re fine with being second place.

I’m glad. It’d be sad if the Sears Tower were dethroned on such a technicality (as happened once already *cough* 1WTC *cough*). When it is eventually surpassed—I’m looking at you, Spire 2.0—I hope it’s by a huge margin.

[chicagoisepic]

Originally Posted by Notyrview

Yeah so much of this depends on how much steam’s left in the economy. I’d say 50/50 chance of getting built. Here’s to more steam.

I'm pretty sure they're going to wait till the next market cycle to build this. According to the article on the first page, they're going to start with the redevelopment of the Tribune Tower first for the first three years and then do the tower after.

[donnie]

This looks to wide(not tall) for the space that it's in!

Floor plans, we must have floor plans..

[Hawkeyes10]

Originally Posted by chicagoisepic

I'm pretty sure they're going to wait till the next market cycle to build this. According to the article on the first page, they're going to start with the redevelopment of the Tribune Tower first for the first three years and then do the tower after.

The article also mentions the tower could begin construction in late 2019 I believe. No reason they shouldn't be able to do both at the same time.

[ChiTownWonder]

At first I was kind of on the edge with this one. Seemed like a basic design, but I do love those side renderings where you can see those golden vertical fins and the crown. It also fits in very well with the skyline and dominates the area without being a sore thumb. Hopefully this gets built as is but past experience says not likely.

[Notyrview]

Originally Posted by ChiTownWonder

At first I was kind of on the edge with this one. Seemed like a basic design, but I do love those side renderings where you can see those golden vertical fins and the crown. It also fits in very well with the skyline and dominates the area without being a sore thumb. Hopefully this gets built as is but past experience says not likely.

I agree it's not groundbreaking, but it's a good design and isn't boring.

[ChiTownWonder]

It would be great if this tower can finally bring life to Cityfront Plaza!

[JMKeynes]

That’s gorgeous.

It reminds me of the proposal for 5 WTC.

[BVictor1]

1,422’

[rlw777]

Originally Posted by BVictor1

1,422’

[chris08876]

O wow. Very nice. Its one for the morning papers front page headline: "Chicago is back, awe of tower causes ER visits to skyrocket".

[rlw777]

I don't think this one has been posted

[Fvn]

Terracotta on the east-west facades? Also, damn rendering qualities in general just keep getting better and better and better...

[chris08876]

Originally Posted by Randomguy34

It's like someone revived the old Waldorf-Astoria proposal

I was thinking the same. The Waldorf super tall proposal was one of my favorites during that cycle, shame it didn't manifest, but on the bright side, this design is quasi-Waldorf.

[aaron38]

That view makes the rest of Streeterville look tiny. It’ll be like when Sears was first built in the Loop.

[wrab]

Originally Posted by Fvn

Terracotta on the east-west facades? Also, damn rendering qualities in general just keep getting better and better and better...

I'm hoping it's terra cotta!

[seadragon]

The rendering of the proposed Tribune Tower Addition, a building with organic like form yet composed with strongly non organic materials, relative to neighboring and very intricate if not elaborate, centennial level structures and superb expressions of architectural heritage along Michigan Ave, is handsome in appearance and looks very nice as presented.

The elegant and curvaceous form and color of the Tribune Tower Addition, one that has expressions of multiple buildings found in other regions of the world with a greater concentration of contemporaneous supertalls such as Shanghai, Pearl River Delta and Dubai, though dichotomous in presentation if not monolithic and svelte in concept to the very ornate Raymond Hood designed Tribune Tower with pronounced sculpted reliefs to the organic appearance of the materials used for construction, to the incorporating of stone like flying buttress reminiscent of Gothic Cathedrals, working to solidify Chicago's position in architectural prominence.

An architectural prominence that in the past 25-30 years (I remembering construction cranes atop the yet completed John Hancock, any future renaming of the building being an expression of disrespect for our nation's Declaration of Independence along with American and Chicago history, not just the insurance company and vulgar as renaming the Sears Tower to ever trying to rename the Chrysler or Empire State Buildings, New York City, to Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco) and starting off slowly in less developed regions of the world, is now rapidly diminishing as Chicago much like the rest of the region, e.g. rank falling O’Hare Airport along with notable architectural omissions such a building to include failed project, not simply a structure (tower) greater than 2,000 feet (610m), yields to the next generation of planed, larger cities.