CHICAGO | Highrise Projects & Construction, v7

[r18tdi]

Not loving it. But I guess I'll take it. The developer is Lucien's son, I doubt he'll choose another architect...
I assume the folks at 30 W. Oak are throwing a hissy fit.

[MN/WI]

Great updates

[BuildThemTaller]

You know... I don't hate it. Not my favorite, but a big improvement over the previous design and that mansard roof. It at least tries to disguise the parking podium and does a reasonably good job of it to boot. The podium won't look good at night. The street presence is promising. I give it a C-.

[Hourstrooper]

Originally Posted by Barrelfish

Curbed article on the Lucien Lagrange design. 500 ft and 34 stories, with 90 luxury condos and 150 parking spots (50 reserved for the Warren Barr rehab center next door).

Not sure how I feel about the design yet, but at least there is no Mansard roof hat!

I actually like it!, Different than the typical glass box.

[ardecila]

Nope, not falling for it again. Even when LaGrange puts out semi-promising renderings (like Ritz-Carlton) the finished product is garbage, because he is willing to entertain the cheapest of building materials so long as he can keep all the little meaningless frills.

On several projects now, he's accepted a horrid white window system instead of a bronze one, because he couldn't bear to part with some fancy spandrels or cornices somewhere... even though the white is jarring and ruins the overall effect!

One Bennett Park at least ended up with a decent material palette and a nice interaction at street level, and a pleasing slenderness from certain angles.

[BonoboZill4]

Originally Posted by Hourstrooper

I actually like it!, Different than the typical glass box.

Be ready to be disappointed... different =/= better

[BonoboZill4]

Originally Posted by ardecila

One Bennett Park at least ended up with a decent material palette and a nice interaction at street level, and a pleasing slenderness from certain angles.

And that's because a competent architect designed OBP in the first place lol

[LouisVanDerWright]

Lol Raymond Hood should file suit from the grave. It's a blatant knockoff of Tribune. The entire massing and most of the details are totally stolen.

[ChiPlanner]

Originally Posted by the urban politician

Please no....

1999 called, it doesn't want its beige LaGrange turd back

This made my day.

It's like... he finally updated his style past his mid-90s po-mo atrocities, yet somehow landed squarely as a Robert A. M. Stern knock-off? Yet if you ask me, Stern learned from Lagrange.

Regardless- probably one of his better designs, yet per his other buildings, the materials will suck and any sense of architectural detail will be value engineered to nothingness.

[Busy Bee]

Originally Posted by ardecila

Even when LaGrange puts out semi-promising renderings (like Ritz-Carlton) the finished product is garbage, because he is willing to entertain the cheapest of building materials so long as he can keep all the little meaningless frills.

This pretty much hits the nail on the head.

[PittsburghPA]

New Fulton Market District crane going up behind Google. I'm not sure what the project is.

https://i.imgur.com/tB6lMjm.jpg

[Handro]

Originally Posted by PittsburghPA

New Fulton Market District crane going up behind Google. I'm not sure what the project is.

https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/9/13...n-office-tower

[PittsburghPA]

Originally Posted by Handro

https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/9/13...n-office-tower

I believe that is Carpenter and Carroll.

Most likely 318 N Carpenter.

https://chicago.curbed.com/maps/west...18-n-carpenter

[BuildThemTaller]

Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright

Lol Raymond Hood should file suit from the grave. It's a blatant knockoff of Tribune. The entire massing and most of the details are totally stolen.

I also got an immediate Tribune Tower vibe but was too afraid to put it in writing here. I already wrote that I didn't hate it. Seemed like a bridge too far, that I would get banned for such a comment.

[Chisouthside]

I dont think it looks to bad, just the building next door makes it look stumpy.

[maru2501]

if that top section were actually that shade of green, maybe

but it will wind up the same shade of baby puke as the rest of it

[bhawk66]

That building is absolutely fine. Look at the two shit turds next to it. Yet the amount of wining about a pretty decent building is thru the roof. Love this place. Tribune copy cat? No shit. All art is copied at some level. I suppose Rood invented flying butresses and Gothicism.

[ardecila]

Originally Posted by bhawk66

That building is absolutely fine. Look at the two shit turds next to it. Yet the amount of wining about a pretty decent building is thru the roof. Love this place. Tribune copy cat? No shit. All art is copied at some level. I suppose Rood invented flying butresses and Gothicism.

What two shit turds are you referring to? Warren Barr sucks a big one, but 30 West Oak is a fantastic piece of minimalism. Not to mention the Newberry Library across the street that is a genuine historic landmark...

[bhawk66]

Originally Posted by ardecila

What two shit turds are you referring to? Warren Barr sucks a big one, but 30 West Oak is a fantastic piece of minimalism. Not to mention the Newberry Library across the street that is a genuine historic landmark...

Yea, I figured my assault on West Oak would garner some rancor. I get it. Modernism. But, really. Look at it. Its a grid with a box on top. Seriously, though. Glad it's there/a part of arch history.

[Hourstrooper]

https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/10/3...ph-lake-street

Glad to see some new proposals
Designs are ok on these 2.