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Originally Posted by esquire
^ Those photos are spectacular. The views from that building look amazing, some of the best in the city from a residential building. It probably does feel a bit like living in a no-man's land, though. The parts of the Exchange with street life are several blocks away, there isn't much in the immediate surroundings.
I thought the top cube was a shared living/dining room space, though? But it looks like there's a bathtub in there?!
I'd be curious to know how the residents find living in that building. I wonder what their take is on life in 62M so far.
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The glass part is an Airbnb unit, I know several people who have rented it.
The regular units are absolutely horrendous – it's like they designed the entire thing without consulting an engineer or thinking about mechanical systems until the units were already built.
They're finished soooo cheap. Front hall closet is almost entirely taken by HVAC. First thing you see when you walk in are all the electrical panels in the open. Half of the kitchen cupboards have air ducts running through them. The washer/dryer are in the kitchen. What looks like would be the only closet in bedroom is actually just the water cooler, and there's really nowhere to properly put a vertical wardrobe. The fact the core is outside is awful – get in a heated elevator to step outside again 3 storeys in the air (windy), before going in your unit with only 1 door. It's dark and dreary up there.
It's truly a marvel of horrible design. I was all for it in theory, and think it's cool on the outside, but it was executed horrifically and is an embarrassment to the architects, who clearly only cared about doing something "cool" and put no thought into what'd it would be like to actually live there.
Oh, and almost 2 years in, its just a giant gravel pit underneath – no landscaping has happened yet, and it is DARK.