i hate to say it but driving past MoMo today i did not see one bit of difference in the facade of this building. Are they or did they already change this glass to newer or clearer glass? This building could be so cool with the right colored glass, but whats there is really having an undesirable look and feel! too bad!
Went by very quickly today. I think it's only been done at the first level at this point. I'm hoping they plan to redo the whole base.
It's good to see work progressing, but it saddens me to know that what was already a wonderful prewar landscape is totally being annihilated for a highrise, a sterile plaza, and a so-far undeveloped yucky parking lot (whose existence at all still perplexes me--WHY was this allowed to happen?)
YES!!! THANK YOU!! i thought i was the only one who really HATES all this development at the cost of losing this city's history and its image. however i do like this building a lot, but i really don't think downtown chicago needs ANY more plazas. and why can't projects like this be build in already vacant lots; there are SO many of them. and if something MUST be torn down, there is SO much PoMo CRAP in this city, why is all the good architecture being lost? if you ask me, that HIDEOUS PoMo tower next door and across the street from 155 should have been razed to make way for 155... and nix the plaza
I have no problem with the changing of the black. I mean, i really don't think it is practical for a building to use black in today's sustainable age. I could not imagine the heat that those babies would suck up.
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I have no problem with the changing of the black. I mean, i really don't think it is practical for a building to use black in today's sustainable age. I could not imagine the heat that those babies would suck up.
I think black could have allowed for more of an integration of sustainable ideas, and as long as the roof is required by daley to be green, the place where it is most detrimental on a building to be black, then it'll be not that big of an issue, because the building will not be getting that much direct sunlight on the black wall.
^ They're planning to rebuild the Chicago Mercantile Exchange because they realize now how dumb it was to tear it down
Zeller's Desert you mean? I have to walk past it every day and it makes me fume.
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I saw in Crain's Chicago an article today about a new development proposed in the South Loop in the parcel just north of the River City Condominiums that will include an 80 story tower. I cannot access the information online because to post here because i'm not a subscriber. Can someone please post the article here? Thanks in advance
I saw in Crain's Chicago an article today about a new development proposed in the South Loop in the parcel just north of the River City Condominiums that will include an 80 story tower. I cannot access the information online because to post here because i'm not a subscriber. Can someone please post the article here? Thanks in advance
It has already been posted - check post #1728 on page 70.
I'm thinking that 215 West Washington, the Wit hotel, and 1555 South Wabash (there has been a rig on site for the past few days although I'm not sure if it has done anything yet) are either technically in site-prep or may be soon-to-be in site-prep....
I think it's the other way around. This design borrows so much from Ralph Johnson -- the window treatment at the base is from The Contemporaine, the long exposed columns and the overhang come from Skybridge, and the curve itself reminds me of The Clare more than any other curved building. They aren't the only ones borrowing from RJ these days, either.
I mustn't have been clear. It always take me a while to return to speaking/thinking in English after spending time in the Mid-east. I was hoping to say that I really dislike the design for the Clare, especially its west and south exposures. I would rather see design elements from the other placed into the Clare's design.
Certainly R. Johnsonesque treaments would be welcomed on the Clare.
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This could be an awesome project. River City always seems to me to be so isolated and set off from the rest of the South Loop. If this happens, I want to see the interaction with 311 S Wacker, two blocks to the north.
Don't forget 255 West Van Buren, which will be between this project and 311 S Wacker, and Roosevelt Collection, which will be one block to the south, as well....
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i hate to say it but driving past MoMo today i did not see one bit of difference in the facade of this building. Are they or did they already change this glass to newer or clearer glass? This building could be so cool with the right colored glass, but whats there is really having an undesirable look and feel! too bad!
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