CHICAGO | Coast at Lakeshore East / 345 E Wacker Drive | 464 FT / 141 M | 46 FLOORS - Page 20

Hayward · #**381** Posted: **Jul 17, 2012, 3:41 AM**

Larry must be snapping new sky photos for a new book!

Ch.G, Ch.G · #**382** Posted: **Jul 17, 2012, 4:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by Limedaiquar

Beautiful!

FMA Brotherhood!

Limedaiquar · #**383** Posted: **Jul 17, 2012, 8:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by Ch.G, Ch.G

FMA Brotherhood!

Aaah, yes I love Pride.

xXSkyscraperDudeXx · #**384** Posted: **Jul 17, 2012, 6:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by spyguy

Lawrence Okrent/ Coast at Lakeshore East Facebook

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower really looks stunning and the coast is turning out beautiful!

george · #**385** Posted: **Jul 20, 2012, 2:48 PM**

7-20

ChiPhi · #**386** Posted: **Jul 20, 2012, 3:15 PM**

from far away, that glass looks like a much deeper blue than I had expected. I really like it!!!

colemonkee · #**387** Posted: **Jul 20, 2012, 7:53 PM**

^ In that particular shot, it's reflecting a somewhat dark grey sky, so it appears a deeper blue. But with a lighter, bluer sky, the glass would appear noticeably brighter.

mousquet · #**388** Posted: **Jul 20, 2012, 8:45 PM**

That glass looks excellent. Hopefully this is designed to be affordable, it would feel frustrating if it was a millionaire tower.

I'm looking forward to such residential highrises over here to improve the middle class density. We haven't built any single one since the 1970s. I think it makes housing conditions way harder for the middle class. But people will have to tolerate that better off folks enjoy better views in the upper apartments of those new shiny buildings, which is gonna be hard here in Paris...

Chicago_Forever · #**389** Posted: **Jul 21, 2012, 1:44 AM**

http://www.chicagotribune.com/classi...,6249911.story

Lakeshore East's eighth residential high-rise tower is on schedule for a February opening.

Coast is a luxury rental property under construction at 345 E. Wacker Drive in Chicago, on the northwest corner of the $4 billion, 28-acre master-planned development.

Forty-one of the 46 floors have been poured, according to David Carlins, president of Magellan Development Group, developer of Lakeshore East.

"We anticipate topping off the building by mid-August and completing window installation by mid-September," he said. "We've had an unusually mild winter that has allowed us to move ahead with our goal of initial occupancy in February 2013."

Robin Loewenberg Tebbe, president of Magellan affiliate NNP Residential, the leasing and management agent for Coast, said prospective renters have shown strong interest in the new building."We have an active group of Facebook and Twitter followers as well as a priority waiting list of interested prospects," said Loewenberg Tebbe.

george · #**390** Posted: **Jul 21, 2012, 10:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chicago_Forever

http://www.chicagotribune.com/classi...,6249911.story

Forty-one of the 46 floors have been poured, according to David Carlins, president of Magellan Development Group, developer of Lakeshore East.

According to this statement ^ dated 7-19 only the floors above upper East Wacker Drive count in the 46 floor count description. Levels beneath upper Wacker are not counted.

ChiPhi · #**391** Posted: **Jul 23, 2012, 6:45 PM**

7/21

Filling in the Wacker Canyon:

SamInTheLoop · #**392** Posted: **Jul 24, 2012, 3:02 PM**

Been getting the distinct feeling they've added a couple floors to Coast. Reported floor and unit counts are now higher than the original plan. I'd picked up on this in a couple trades as well, but now on the Coast website itself it's now being called a 51-story (my interpretation is that this is an increase from the above terra firma 49 floors as originally planned), 517-unit (up from the original 499) tower...........this also would be supportive of what I'm seeing looking down at the construction, as by my calcs, they should have been wrapping up the final floor late last week or early this week, but it looks as though they're still going up.....

Chicago_Forever · #**393** Posted: **Jul 24, 2012, 3:29 PM**

Yeah, I noticed that too. And I just checked out their facebook page and they said they've added 2 floors for a total of 518 units.

ndrwmls10 · #**394** Posted: **Jul 25, 2012, 12:00 AM**

Does that mean it's close to 500 feet?

SamInTheLoop · #**395** Posted: **Jul 26, 2012, 4:25 PM**

^ Good question. I don't know if the new height reported recently - in the 460's - includes the two additional floors. My guess - pure guess - is that more than likely it does already include them, given the new height was revealed so recently, but again not sure...

Regardless, I am thinking the proportions of this tower are going to wind up being near-perfect. Just elegant all-around....

ChiPhi · #**396** Posted: **Jul 26, 2012, 5:55 PM**

For anyone:
How do you think they managed to structurally pull off an additional 2 floors? Is it necessary that these floors were planned for in the original foundation and held as a possibility depending on the will of the markets or are 2 floors a negligible addition to a 40+ floor building?

Swicago Swi Sox · #**397** Posted: **Jul 26, 2012, 6:30 PM**

^^Two more floors out of 50 is about 4% more load to the building columns and caissons. It also obviously makes the building taller, so the theoretical cantilever out of the ground that the building lateral system would be designed as is longer. This increases the base shear linearly (the same 4% probably) and the overturning moment at the base exponentially.

That said, there is a good chance that the structural engineer was able to sharpen his/her pencil to find that capacity in the existing structure. Maybe it went down where the developer got some more money and asked the engineer how many more floors they could add at this point and the answer was 2? Another scenario is that the this change occurred before construction started and we just found out about it now.

Another option is that they are reinforcing the foundations and any select columns due the change. This happened on a project that I worked on, and it was a expensive and pretty dramatic structurally. However my project was an institutional building where each floor generated a decent amount of money per square foot and it also saved them from building another building on another lot in the near future. Given that these high rise apartment buildings are typically pretty tight with their profit margins (compared to institutional buildings), I bet the solution was pretty painless structurally.

ChiPhi · #**398** Posted: **Jul 26, 2012, 9:59 PM**

Thanks!

Hayward · #**399** Posted: **Jul 27, 2012, 5:22 AM**

denizen467 · #**400** Posted: **Jul 27, 2012, 5:41 AM**

^ Rare vantage point. Did you climb onto the peacock or something?