CHICAGO | Highrise Projects & Construction

[jc5680]

Yeah, the precast definitely isn't bad. Nice contrast to the glass, not trying to mimic anything it's not.

I am really interested in the signage that is planned for the corner. The supports jutting out for 4 floors of the building suggest something massive. I would love to see something that is the same scale as the Hotel Felix signage...

[J_M_Tungsten]

Not that I'm complaining, but I see the K 2 crane jumped again today. How much taller will it be from its current point?

[ChiPhi]

^^^

Originally Posted by Joe Zekas

The crane is set to jump 80 feet to its final height tomorrow, 8/2. Should take most of the day. The building's on schedule to top out in the third week of August.

Originally Posted by Joe Zekas

Whoops - mid-September topping out. Eight floors left to go.

[J_M_Tungsten]

Sweet! This one is definitely seen well from the west.

[HomrQT]

Originally Posted by Mr Downtown

^No parks for a mile in any direction:



Not far from downtown??? It's as far away as Wrigley Field.

I know I'm late responding to this, but there is one park 1.3 miles away and 2 parks just over 2 miles away from this site as well as California Blvd. Again, I don't think the site needs a park that could fit a full length soccer field and then have space on top of that, just less park more structure. I understand what you're saying about distance, 7 miles is a good walk so it's not Old Town close, but it's certainly not what I'd consider far from downtown, because to me O'Hare is far from downtown, not 31st and Kedzie.

[Joe Zekas]

K2 tower crane by YoChicago1, on Flickr

Locking down the final section of the tower crane. Shot yesterday.

[untitledreality]

Originally Posted by HomrQT

I know I'm late responding to this, but there is one park 1.3 miles away and 2 parks just over 2 miles away from this site as well as California Blvd. Again, I don't think the site needs a park that could fit a full length soccer field and then have space on top of that, just less park more structure. I understand what you're saying about distance, 7 miles is a good walk so it's not Old Town close, but it's certainly not what I'd consider far from downtown, because to me O'Hare is far from downtown, not 31st and Kedzie.

All you did was just further prove how appropriate it is for this project to include a park.

Piotrowski is over used given its size... McKinley requires residents of this area to walk through a large industrial zone, over a river, under the Stevenson, under a set of rail viaducts, across Western and across Archer... Douglas is a hike into a not so great neighborhood... and the idea of children playing on the boulevard is laughable, sending kids over to a oversized median that runs between Cook County Correctional and the courts? Get real.

Two thirds of the site will be taken up by a mixed use structure with three separate forms rising 7-10 floors in an area of essentially nothing over three floors... and certainly nothing as visually exciting as this proposal. So they threw in a park slightly larger than a soccer field, big deal.

[pilsenarch]

i can't believe we are arguing about a soccer field in a brownfeild site amongst one of the best contemporary proposals for a neighborhood that we have seen in years...

[HomrQT]

Originally Posted by untitledreality

All you did was just further prove how appropriate it is for this project to include a park.

Piotrowski is over used given its size... McKinley requires residents of this area to walk through a large industrial zone, over a river, under the Stevenson, under a set of rail viaducts, across Western and across Archer... Douglas is a hike into a not so great neighborhood... and the idea of children playing on the boulevard is laughable, sending kids over to a oversized median that runs between Cook County Correctional and the courts? Get real.

Two thirds of the site will be taken up by a mixed use structure with three separate forms rising 7-10 floors in an area of essentially nothing over three floors... and certainly nothing as visually exciting as this proposal. So they threw in a park slightly larger than a soccer field, big deal.

My last post on the subject: I never said I think the site deserves no park, simply a smaller one than suggested and that more construction be should included. If everyone else is absolutely star struck in love with the current proposal, then so be it, but I feel too much land is being allocated for the park.

[harryc]

Originally Posted by Mr Downtown

^No parks for a mile in any direction:



Not far from downtown??? It's as far away as Wrigley Field.

There is always bubbly creek - just down the street.


Same site - 2009









anyone know what this plant was originally ? looked pretty big to be a school from the start.

[Mr Downtown]

Washburne Trade School was an old factory, built in 1910 for the Liquid Carbonic Co., which made drugstore soda fountains in the early days but apparently shifted into the welding and industrial markets later. The office annex to the east was added later, probably 1940s.

[harryc]

^^ thank you - pretty big place.

[N830MH]

Is going to be demolished the Trade School? Because it was 102 years old. It's very old. They needed to build a new school.

[Chicago Shawn]

^Should have never been demolished. The site was plenty big to include at least a portion of the old building and the park the neighborhood wanted. Such a waste and lack of creativity as another Alfred S. Aschuler building is gone forever. Chicago really needs to do a better job of preserving its industrial heritage outside of the trendy neighborhoods. Too many great buildings that really define the city's character and could have been re-purposed have been lost; and its even sadder that this building had already been converted into something else. At least the replacement is very bold, but I fear what we see in the rendering will inevitably be value engineered into something less grand.


Thanks for the photos, Harry.

[Mr Downtown]

^What could it have been turned into?

[Hayward]

A giant indoor amusement park.

[GregBear24]

We could've gone the Detroit route and let it become the world's biggest coke den... I guess that's sort of cool, maybe?

[Hayward]

Originally Posted by GregBear24

We could've gone the Detroit route and let it become the world's biggest coke den... I guess that's sort of cool, maybe?

Let's be fair. They became paintball courses or pot farms. Then later urban explorer attractions

[Dan in Chicago]

Changes to page 1:

Lincoln Park 2520 -- height increased to 477'-6". The roof height is 464'-4".
SoNo East -- changed to completed. I'm working on getting a height for this.

[J_M_Tungsten]

500 N Lake shore

8-3-2012