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Are these the foundations for the town homes that will line St. James?
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I love the preservation of the church on the property. Glad they didn't demolish it...
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Usually ride my bike to work or take the redline for my trips uptown but I took the #147 on lsd last week and it was the first time I noticed, you guys beat me to the pics.

There's another project going up near Foster/Sheridan or at least 2 cranes. Anybody know about that?
     
     
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^^^Pretty sure that is the Admiral.....a highrise old persons home
     
     
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Are these the foundations for the town homes that will line St. James?
They look like it.. The only thing that I find odd is that if you look at the construction to the left of what looks like the townhome foundations.. they've actually started on the above ground construction for all of it, including the area behind the townhome outlines. I'm befuddled as to why they are raising it off the ground (clearly at least 1 story high, as I can notice it against the church) if there is supposed to just be a courtyard there.

I'm wondering if they've changed their original plan away from having that open park? I don't know.. but if they built a park at what I'm looking at right now, it would be 1 story higher (at the very least) than the church.
     
     
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Looks like the park is elevated.

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Yeah, it's elevated over the parking.
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that is a private park..yes?
     
     
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My fantasyworld: this one would be clad in real limestone.
     
     
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I wonder what the going cost of limestone is right now... Any quarries near Chi-town?
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Not really. There are limestone quarries in Joliet, but Joliet limestone is too brittle and porous for architectural use. They use it mainly for making the subgrade of roads, sidewalks, and plazas.
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I love the preservation of the church on the property. Glad they didn't demolish it...
I agree and in 50-100 years we really will appreciate it. Chicago has lost some important churches recently and in the past due to fire. Old Churches are susceptible to fire because of the original construction and lack of fire protection codes built into them when they were constructed. The world has lost some very important Churches due to fire and although I am not religious myself, the many of the buildings themselves were and still are works of art, esp. the Sullivan one in Chicago and of course the giant ones in Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrim_Baptist_Church

Even the limestone outer walls did not prevent the very flammable wood from taking off as seen in the 1890 Sullivan one in this youtube vid below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2R9V7LiHYI

There is plans in the work to try to save what is left of the structure.

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from wiki After the fire, the brick and stone of the outer walls still stood near-complete and were determined to be structurally sound.

A steel support skeleton was later attached to the outside to brace the walls for a possible later reconstruction of the interior of the building and restoration of the façade.

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BTW the fire was started accidentally by workers performing roof repairs and it was not a hate thing at all.


And a close one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Na...edral,_Chicago

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I wonder what the going cost of limestone is right now... Any quarries near Chi-town?
I believe a lot of the old limestone in Chicago came from here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Limestone

What the cost and origination[s] façade quality limestone in Chicagoland and is not my specialty but I hope a foumer in the field can answer yours and my piqued question. Thank you for your contribution in this thread.

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These are photos from the other side of the construction site. I live in a nearby building and snapped these shots from my apartment.

Please note these photos are about a week old, takes forever to get activated on this forum, hahah.

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North end of the building has some of the finished yellow stone exterior being put up. Doesn't look bad, but doesn't look too fantastic either (a bit cheap looking). Hard to tell at this point.
Nice photos and thanks for the contribution. From these last two pics I cannot see where the crane supports that very long concrete boom. I am on a lap top and wonder where the connection is. Perhaps my res is to low.
     
     
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My fantasyworld: this one would be clad in real limestone.
I would like to see integrated panels where limestone is affixed to precast panels. That way cladding can be done quickly, and possibly an increase in longevity. They do it for brick, so why not limestone. No more chunky reveals or weird mitered corners. I believe it's more of a construction labor and maintenance issue rather than a material cost. But I really don't know.
     
     
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Not really. There are limestone quarries in Joliet, but Joliet limestone is too brittle and porous for architectural use. They use it mainly for making the subgrade of roads, sidewalks, and plazas.
I know there is a quarry along I-294 in South Holland, but I don't know what exactly are they getting from it... I guess its Limestone since you can clearly see the rock exposed all along the walls before and after the actual quarry...
     
     
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I would like to see integrated panels where limestone is affixed to precast panels. That way cladding can be done quickly, and possibly an increase in longevity. They do it for brick, so why not limestone. No more chunky reveals or weird mitered corners. I believe it's more of a construction labor and maintenance issue rather than a material cost. But I really don't know.
I don't know if limestone can be shaved into thin veneer like that.
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Nice photos and thanks for the contribution. From these last two pics I cannot see where the crane supports that very long concrete boom. I am on a lap top and wonder where the connection is. Perhaps my res is to low.
It doesn't those booms support their own weight with nothing more than the metal beams that compose them and pneumatic arms that control the joints...


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Old Posted Jan 29, 2011, 11:35 PM
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Cladding going up

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