CHICAGO | Highrise Projects & Construction, v7

[r18tdi]

Originally Posted by chicubs111

^ Is this were the 60 story tower Reily shot down was supposed to go

Correct.

[spyguy]

Office/hotel/residential/retail
Nearly 1.7M sf
63 stories
bKL

[Steely Dan]

^ WOW!!!!

that's a surface lot that absolutely needs to bite the dust.

i'd accept just about anything there, but that's just fantastic.

it looks maybe 700 - 800' tall. can you imagine that kinda height smack up against the kennedy?

does anyone know if this is real or just a design exercise fantasy?

[k1052]

now that's a building

[Natoma]

I feel like if Brazzers built their own HQ, this would be it. Or maybe if Playboy relocated back to Chicago..

[SteelMonkey]

^^^^yes please

[RedCorsair87]

Hell yes!

[marothisu]

^ Very interesting. Madison & Desplaines parking lot?

[r18tdi]

Nice. Looks like 700-800 feet for sure. Wonder if it's a real proposal. The fact that it's on BKL's site means it's probably not.

[nomarandlee]

Oh boy!! That feels like it came out of nowhere. I like! Canyon by the Kennedy is happening bit by bit.

[SamInTheLoop]

Originally Posted by the urban politician

The Halsted/Lake Tower makes my top 5 list of favorite high rise construction starts of 2019

Here is my list for 2019, descending order:

1. One Chicago Square. Banana suit is dry cleaned and ready
2 Salesforce Tower
3 Equinox Tower
4 Halsted/Lake
5 BMO Tower

I believe Salesforce is a planned 2020 start.....

[SamInTheLoop]

New Madison/Des Plaines looks nice....although healthy skepticism about how real it may be given office/residential/hotel program......it’s possible what ends up being built will be all 3 uses. But - unlikely.

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by IronWright

This is probably roughly Wolf Point's total area.

not really, wolf point is nearly 40% larger:

wolf point - 3.2 acres

madison/des plaines/monroe block - 2.0 acres




i'd MUCH rather see this 700+' bKL tower on that block than another couple of 22 story Fifield west loop econo-boxes.

[the urban politician]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

not really, wolf point is nearly 40% larger:

wolf point - 3.2 acres

madison/des plaines/monroe block - 2.0 acres




i'd MUCH rather see the 700+' bKL tower on that block than another couple of 22 story Fifield west loop econo-boxes.

If we had more info and this was proven to be a real proposal, it's definitely worthy of its own thread

[BuildThemTaller]

Originally Posted by SamInTheLoop

New Madison/Des Plaines looks nice....although healthy skepticism about how real it may be given office/residential/hotel program......it’s possible what ends up being built will be all 3 uses. But - unlikely.

Of all the locations where that mix could work, the West Loop is one of the few. It's so close to Union Station and the Kennedy and the rest of the West Loop office boom. Being on the east side of the Kennedy, hardly any local residents will kick up much of a fuss about the height or density. Build it!

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by the urban politician

If we had more info and this was proven to be a real proposal, it's definitely worthy of its own thread

for sure!

but this feels a lot more like either an in-house design exercise or an older development plan that fizzled.

[BonoboZill4]

I'm in love with the orange fins on that beauty!

[BonoboZill4]

Gems II:



That path being connected will be nice. Looking forward to it all being hooked up in the next few years.





Renelle:

[chicubs111]

Originally Posted by IronWright

Why does nearly every project have to have a combination of a podium, park or plaza that fills out the entire space? Three skyscrapers could be built on that lot with the footprint of that podium. This is probably roughly Wolf Point's total area. Two more towers could have been built on the park space at One Bennett Park as well. The density Chicago is losing with this trend is unbelievable and the voids they create keep Chicago from ever feeling overwhelming.

Areas where there could have been a canyon offer sweeping views off into the distance. Here's a sad example:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8918...7i16384!8i8192

I hear you...the problem is we have too many nimbys and alderman who bow to them from preventing that hyper density that we would want despite all these areas are considered downtown or extension of downtown Chicago. For some reason this fear of "manhattenzation" (which i hate to say because i think the Loop itself is similar to manhatten type density at times ) and height bothering people...just look at the example of that 60 story developement reilly knocked down basically right off michigan avenue..i never understand how opposition to tall building effects people vs a shorter squat one...they should put there energy and focus about quality of design regardless of size of building.

[sentinel]

Originally Posted by spyguy

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Office/hotel/residential/retail
Nearly 1.7M sf
63 stories
bKL

So many questions..

Who/what is MWXX? Is that the client? Is this a spec building design?

Is there a developer/client? What is the overall height? Any proposed delivery estimates yet?

This look oddly similar in terms of the strange, differently designed, overlapping masses that bkL designed for parcel 'O' at Lakeshore East. The overall massing at both the lower area along the highway, and the tallest portion perpendicular to that, just seems so broad and foreboding. It doesn't feel like a welcoming design; it's just a choppy, ham-fisted amalgam of parts that would seemingly work better alone than as the assemblage shown in the renders.