They are already CURRENTLY REPLACING all of the glass on the tower with near identical more energy efficient glazing and have been for a long time now.. They are doing it one by one with the window robot after business hours.
Sears will NOT become silver. These journalists are spouting baseless shit. Why would they go to all the work to reclad all the glass, to then just completely change the facade anyway? |
I felt like I was having deja-vu here.. so I will just quote myself from way back in this thread...
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I say garden on balcony, solar panel, and wind turbines are fine.
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http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=33183
Trading firm expanding at Sears Tower By: Todd J. Behme March 03, 2009 (Crain’s) — A trading firm has almost tripled its space at the Sears Tower, a much-needed boost for the landmark skyscraper, which recently lost its biggest tenant. IMC Chicago is expanding by nearly 34,000 square feet, giving the firm the entire 43rd floor, or 52,286 square feet, according to U.S. Equities Asset Management, which leases and manages the building. IMC extended its lease through March 2020 at the 110-story Sears Tower, 233 S. Wacker Drive, the release says. The firm, which currently has 18,390 square feet on the 46th floor, plans to move to the 43rd floor this spring. “It was a competitive pricing structure,” Emir Al-Rawi, managing director of IMC Chicago, said of the decision to stay at Sears Tower. The firm also wanted to be on one floor and likes the building’s infrastructure, Mr. Al-Rawi says. He says the firm plans to build a better trading room in the new space that can accommodate more traders. He said the office has about 95 employees and that the he expects that to grow 30% to 35% this year. IMC Chicago is owned by Amsterdam, Netherlands-based IMC Trading and is that company’s only U.S. office. IMC Chicago has increased its space several times in the Sears Tower after moving into the building in early January 2007 from its original office here at 440 S. LaSalle St. Sears Tower’s biggest tenant, Ernst & Young U.S. LLP, has decided to move out of the building and into the new office building being developed by John Buck Co. at 155 N. Wacker Drive. Ernst & Young has a lease for 387,000 square feet that expires in 2012. The firm occupies about 237,000 square feet, subleasing the rest of the space to other tenants. Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. represented IMC Chicago. |
Some photos I took while in Chi town last August. I also have some photos from the skydeck from when I grew up there in the early 90s, Ill have to find them though.
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I couldn't imagine this building in any other cladding then what it presently has.
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It is unfortunate that the debate on improving the surface features of Sears has been now reduce to rant and rude speech thanks to people like "Nowhereman". And the webmaster seems not to mind this diversion either! Ok, I should stop for a while until folks like him cool off and find the ability to be constructive in their debate by controling their outburst. Dudes, it is resurfacing of a newish building of limited fame (largely just in Chicago) we are talking about, not painting the Parthenon or adding a new face to Mount Rushmore. Chill man. Cheers. |
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It is unfortunate that the debate on improving the surface features of Sears has been now reduce to rant and rude speech thanks to people like "Nowhereman". And the webmaster seems not to mind this diversion either! Ok, I should stop for a while until folks like him cool off and find the ability to be constructive in their debate by controling their outburst. Dudes, it is resurfacing of a newish building of limited fame (largely just in Chicago) we are talking about, not painting the Parthenon or adding a new face to Mount Rushmore. Chill man. Cheers. |
How was that in any way a "rant". Did I call you any names? Did I get upset? No and No. I simply pointed out how you are completely factually off-base when you say things like "Sears facade is cheap", which is just incorrect. How is saying the newspapers have no idea what they are talking about (when I know first hand from my previous work that the things they are suggesting aren't possible) or comparing destroying the Sears' facade to our past "urban renewal" attempts a rant. I guess making an argument and pointing out to someone where they are misrepresenting the facts counts as a "rant" now...
I guess if I tell a holocaust denier they are wrong, I am now ranting, despite the fact that they are completely misinformed. Man some people just can't handle debate (and in this case having their inaccuracies called out) without taking things personally. |
Willis Tower?
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=33287
Willis could get Sears Tower naming rights By: Thomas A. Corfman March 11, 2009 Willis Group Holdings Ltd. has focused its search for a new local office on Sears Tower, which could be renamed after the London-based insurance broker if a deal is reached. |
as long as the tower remains black, they can rename it whatever the hell they want.
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Just like Wrigley, even if they renamed the Sears Tower, to just about everyone, it would remain the Sears Tower. I still hear some people slip up and call Macy's, Marshall Fields. These uniquely Chicago buildings will retain (as they should) their names as long as people are alive to remember them that way, despite the attempts by the egomaniacal to trounce history.
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Changing the name is a mistake. Sears has a brand & identity, which means something to Chicago. Maybe go with Sears/ Willis Tower. Willis alone means nothing & would take generations to sink in. By then a new shmuck would step up & put their name on it. Hell, Bruce Willis Tower would have more relevance.
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2009 so far has seen a lot of news for the Sears Tower; the renovation of the Skydeck with a glass floor box on the west facade, the possible silver reclading, and the name change to Willis Tower.
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i am slightly disturbed by the gray i see at the top of the tower....i hope it is nothing.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3585/...52857850_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3313/...baf6a98e_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3648/...d47194ee_b.jpg is it just ice? http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3372/...11682881_b.jpg |
^^^ Just ice and snow from yesterday's snowstorm. All of the trees and telephone poles and buildings have a coating of ice on their north and northeast sides from the high winds. That's the annoying shit that will be falling down on pedestrians like myself all day today. It wasn't even 5 minutes after I left my building before a big chunk of snow fell off a tree and hit me on the head this morning...
However, maybe one of you could use your telephoto and look for this, I have heard that the windows for the observation deck bubble thing have been taken out on the West face and that the steel support frame has been installed. I'm really curious to see a detailed zoom photo of the top of the west side. |
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