CHICAGO | Aqua | 858 FT / 262 M | 87 FLOORS

[EarlyBuyer]

Good one Andy as always. Thanks for your work on this!

[Aqua Plumber]

[andydie]

thanx early and also thanx to aqua plumber for your amazing views up and down the tower

[harryc]

As seen from Lower East North Water


From the N bank of the river


The morning sun

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[honte]

^ Harry, you've been on fire lately. Pretty sweet shots from you in all the threads... How much does a license to Photomatix cost? I think the good people of the Republic should chip in to buy you a license.

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The shadow lines on Aqua are really the unexpected treat for me. They are almost as interesting as the balconies themselves.

[ChicagoSpire2000]

Im sorry that I havent kept up with the entire project.
But I have scimmed through the last few pages.
And those pictures above, are those really construction pictures or are they "construction renders"?

Basicaly, what Im trying to ask is how far they are on this building. It looks amazing

[bnk]

Originally Posted by harryc

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Harry that is just sick, keep up your pics of this masterpiece.

[honte]

Originally Posted by ChicagoSpire2000

Im sorry that I havent kept up with the entire project.
But I have scimmed through the last few pages.
And those pictures above, are those really construction pictures or are they "construction renders"?

Basicaly, what Im trying to ask is how far they are on this building. It looks amazing

You are looking at the genuine article.

[denizen467]

Originally Posted by bnk

Jenny G should be proud as I am of her.

How can you be proud of her if you don't even bother learning her correct name? Just misspelling would be a small thing, but you completely strike out on her actual first name.

[NYC2ATX]

Originally Posted by denizen467

How can you be proud of her if you don't even bother learning her correct name? Just misspelling would be a small thing, but you completely strike out on her actual first name.

No need to nit-pick. I think he was just being clever, I thought it was cool.

Should he have said Jeanny G?

I dream of Jeanny G.

[photoLith]

So how many floors left?

[EarlyBuyer]

Roughly 25.

[denizen467]

Originally Posted by StatenIslander237

No need to nit-pick. I think he was just being clever, I thought it was cool.

Should he have said Jeanny G?

I dream of Jeanny G.

Not nitpicking about spelling - instead I am being picky about a big fan not knowing somebody's actual name. Her first name is Jeanne. Just by looking at it, it's not possible to be sure whether that's pronounced "Jeanie" or "Jean". So either of those attempts at spelling would be fine. However, "Jenny" is about as in the ballpark as Jane or Julie or whatever. Anyway, sorry to get over-protective about the city's star architects. (Actually, the world's - this is now the tallest edifice on earth designed by a woman, I believe we established last year, with a tip of the hat to Hadid.)

Anyhow, it's really crossed a threshold in the last month where you get a sense of how it will look when finished. It very much entices the eye.

[bnk]

Crips sake man get a life.

[denizen467]

Mm-hmm, mkay.

Lookit, an unwrapped balcony railing, partially seen below.

Originally Posted by harryc

It doesn't look bad so far, but since it's cut off in the photo, need to wait a couple more days or weeks before we get a good idea of how they look en masse.

[jc5680]

Photos from 9/16:

[ardecila]

^^ Wow, it's not often we see stucco on a high-rise.

[aaron38]

This just keeps looking better and better as it gets taller. I think one of the things that's going to make it look huge from ground level is how the waves will shrink in size as you look up, as the waves get farther away from you.

[sentinel]

I asked the GC yesterday when they expect to top-out and he said that originally they expected it to be sometime around April 2009 but they are ahead of schedule, so (mild-winter permitting) he expected they should be T/O by Feb. 2009.