What do you think of this building?
 

Chicago General Developments

Imperial Court Hotel Plaza - 150 rooms + 20000 s.f. retail

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I kind of like it. You could call it tacky, but it's pretty well-proportioned and detailed and it would definitely be a landmark.

Well, it will be built in China town so I think it would fit nicely.

Otherwise it would be weird.

I like it. It is very unique to most areas in America. Being somewhat a high-rise makes it even more intresting.

Not a bigfan, the pagoda style should be limited to pagodas, specifically lowrises. It reminds me of early American skyscrapers when there was no clear design direction.

I'm imagining broad wings like that of a phoenix spreading themselves from the sides with a tail of a massive whale poking out of the rear.


What do you think?

I think that how this turns out really depends on what materials they use and how closely the facade work matches that of the diagram. It could be a somewhat tasteful building with an interesting, high-rise pagoda design, but it could also end up as a gaudy, cheaply built monstrosity.

Unique to metro areas without a true China Town, which I would guess is ,most areas in America.

Good point, but it is not out of scale where this one is going up.

I think that if a building is gonna be tacky, why not be insane tacky? This thing is gonna look SO bad, it will awesome. And why shouldn't China Town look like Disney Land? Why I first saw I laughed and was like 'YES'! So yeah... :shrug: It's fine, whatever.
But where is this going? Can you show me on a map?

It's really cool.....I love it! I wish we had it in our chinatown.

It's rare for this part of the world, but it's essentially PoMo. If you like PoMo, you'll like this. If you don't, you won't.

it's very cartoony..this is going in chinatown? from the first rendering I woudl'nt think so...those people are so not chinese

I believe it's on the sw corner of Clark St. & Archer Ave. against the railroad r.o.w.

would fit nicely in Dubai or in a Chinese city but in Chicago : no thanks

Vegas could probably pull it off obviously as a themed casino, a few other cities with bustling China towns.. ie.. Sisco/Couver it could be interesting... however, not for it personally.. not there anyway..

But tip the hat for thinking out side the box... just a little too far out imo..

Depends on quality of materials

It's a very silly design but...why not, it is Chinatown after all.

I'd like it even more if they built the buildings behind it as shown in the first rendering. . . but otherwise it will be a gaudy landmark to Chicago's Chinatown. . . but the shoe surely fits in this case. . .

Looks really good. It will be a great addition to Chinatown.

It looks better than most of the other buildings that try to look like that.

Is it just me or is the perspective off in the first rendering?