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

[harryc]

Nov 20

[marothisu]

https://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-sh...craper-chicago

[KWillChicago]

It will be really sad if the glass on this finishes before gems 2. Lol. Whats the hold up gems?

[Bombardier]

^GEMS 2 is on hold indefinitely due to non-payment. Many unpaid parties on that project, unfortunately.

[KWillChicago]

Originally Posted by Bombardier

^GEMS 2 is on hold indefinitely due to non-payment. Many unpaid parties on that project, unfortunately.

Thats the first I heard of that. What a bummer. So close to comlpetion. I hope the parents haven't already signed their tuition checks.

[kolchak]

Well it just goes to show. As many times as I've looked at the renderings I never put it together that the 'secondary' window treatment over the entrance mimics the alternating frustums of the tower. Very cool.

[bhawk66]

Originally Posted by kolchak

Well it just goes to show. As many times as I've looked at the renderings I never put it together that the 'secondary' window treatment over the entrance mimics the alternating frustums of the tower. Very cool.

Me either. Always thought that part of the building was odd in combination with the rest. Glad to see it now. Good catch.

I'm definitely gonna have dinner there someday.

[cozy]

Originally Posted by kolchak

Well it just goes to show. As many times as I've looked at the renderings I never put it together that the 'secondary' window treatment over the entrance mimics the alternating frustums of the tower. Very cool.

hah, would ya look at that. never thought of it.

[jjk113]

do we have an estimate as to when it will be completely clad?

[BVictor1]

Originally Posted by Bombardier

^GEMS 2 is on hold indefinitely due to non-payment. Many unpaid parties on that project, unfortunately.

Hmmm... Well, If all fails, they now have the shell for the public school the was always apart of the LSE plan

[marothisu]

Anybody have any intel on who bought the ~$20M penthouse here? It'll be fun when all of those units close and if we can see who was buying them. I assume there's a number of foreign entities who've bought in this building which will be hard to trace back to a real person.

[cozy]

Originally Posted by BVictor1

Hmmm... Well, If all fails, they now have the shell for the public school the was always apart of the LSE plan

if only

Originally Posted by marothisu

Anybody have any intel on who bought the ~$20M penthouse here? It'll be fun when all of those units close and if we can see who was buying them. I assume there's a number of foreign entities who've bought in this building which will be hard to trace back to a real person.

i vaguely remember Magellan confirming the penthouse investor is foreign and saying they won't be telling us any nationalities yet

[bhawk66]

Originally Posted by marothisu

Anybody have any intel on who bought the ~$20M penthouse here? It'll be fun when all of those units close and if we can see who was buying them. I assume there's a number of foreign entities who've bought in this building which will be hard to trace back to a real person.

edit/drunkenness

[cozy]

furniture coming in? or does mayflower move anything

[alegalvvan94]

[chicagodeckerdude]

Some may be annoyed because it has been asked a few times already I'm sure. But...why does this building require that blow thru floor when many other skyscrapers and supertalls don't have them?

[gebs]

Originally Posted by chicagodeckerdude

Some may be annoyed because it has been asked a few times already I'm sure. But...why does this building require that blow thru floor when many other skyscrapers and supertalls don't have them?

My non-technical assumption is that it has to do with the slenderness of the top frustum. You'll see a similar approach taken at 432 Park Avenue, but in that case, the blow-through floors are at regular intervals, so it looks planned and better integrated into the design.

[Ogdenman36]

Great last pic! It is such a beauty, but looks unfinished with blow through. Hoping it will grow on me like the Tesla Truck

[PittsburghPA]

Originally Posted by chicagodeckerdude

Some may be annoyed because it has been asked a few times already I'm sure. But...why does this building require that blow thru floor when many other skyscrapers and supertalls don't have them?

Seeing as these will be some of the most expensive condo's in Chicago it seems the developers are doing everything they can to maximize the comfort for the buyers (i.e. multiple slosh tanks and blow-through floor).

Personally, I like it. It is the first of its kind for Chicago and I think will look attractive once complete.

There is always the highly unlikely scenario the engineers realized something before it was too late and added it out of necessity like New York's Citicorp building. If this was the case I highly doubt it was as dramatic as the Citicorp situation but you never know.

http://www.engineersjournal.ie/2015/...ilure-averted/

[Barrelfish]

My understanding is that it goes something like this:

• Originally, the narrow parts of each frustrum were going to be even narrower (going from 90ish feet at the widest point down to 70ish feet at the narrowest)
• These got widened so there were fewer difference in floorplans on the wide vs. narrow floors (now more like 90ish vs. 80ish). This brought more usable square footage and also reduced costs (less need to jog plumbinb back and forth, etc.)
• That extra width, combined with the buildings narrow profile + the fact that the middle frustrum isn't directly anchored to the ground (there's a roadway underneath), meant that sway was higher than they wanted during wind tunnel testing
• Therefore, the blow through floor was added to reduce the sway. I think this was after construction was already started, so it was too late to change the design of the tower in a way that would eliminate the need for the blow through

I may be conflating things slightly (maybe the blowthru would have been required regardless of the change in floor plates), but that's the general gist.