CHICAGO | Wolf Point - East Tower | 679 FT | 62 FLOORS - Page 26

KWillChicago · #**501** Posted **Mar 23, 2018, 3:48 AM**

Interesting engineering. So the ramp slabs will be built above and under the support beams before they take them out in sections or will they take them out full size before the ramps are put in?

LouisVanDerWright · #**502** Posted **Mar 23, 2018, 4:29 AM**

There will be no ramps, the WPW ramps are going to serve this garage as well.

Fvn · #**503** Posted **Mar 23, 2018, 8:55 PM**

the deck adjacent to Orleans was poured today; we'll possibly some see bracing coming out next week. this one should move pretty fast if they don't have to do ramps

maru2501 · #**504** Posted **Mar 26, 2018, 5:35 PM**

so we know where the gravel barge was going

Fvn · #**505** Posted **Mar 27, 2018, 1:30 AM**

Some of the bracing came out today

harryc · #**506** Posted **Mar 27, 2018, 3:59 AM**

March 20

March 26

Pulling out the first set of rakers

and a ramp

Kumdogmillionaire · #**507** Posted **Mar 27, 2018, 5:08 PM**

I thought someone said no ramps. That looks like a ramp to me in the last picture

harryc · #**508** Posted **Mar 27, 2018, 5:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Kumdogmillionaire

I thought someone said no ramps. That looks like a ramp to me in the last picture

My guess would be that the lower level or 2 are below the neighboring garage.

aaron38 · #**509** Posted **Mar 27, 2018, 5:38 PM**

What are they doing in front of the Mart? Just some repairs?

harryc · #**510** Posted **Mar 27, 2018, 5:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by aaron38

What are they doing in front of the Mart? Just some repairs?

Repairing the "riverwalk" there - stripped off the old deck - replaced and rewelded the supports -new deck is on - railing (slabs) lined up and ready.

harryc · #**511** Posted **Apr 1, 2018, 10:45 PM**

March 28

Removing the whaler now that the floor has set.

Well grounded.

Chi-Sky21 · #**512** Posted **Apr 2, 2018, 2:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by harryc

March 28

Not that i really like the new paint job on the Holiday Inn anyways...but if they do not paint the very top part of it the same color that is really going to annoy me even more!

HomrQT · #**513** Posted **Apr 2, 2018, 2:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chi-Sky21

Not that i really like the new paint job on the Holiday Inn anyways...but if they do not paint the very top part of it the same color that is really going to annoy me even more!

The grey really helps the building imo, but damn that part at the top looks so stupid.

Chi-Sky21 · #**514** Posted **Apr 2, 2018, 2:25 PM**

The old saying about lipstick on a pig comes to mind.......

Notyrview · #**515** Posted **Apr 2, 2018, 2:30 PM**

Dude the grey looks absolutely awful. Honest to god.

Kumdogmillionaire · #**516** Posted **Apr 2, 2018, 5:48 PM**

No color change was going to save that building from its design. The only thing I can see someone arguing in favor of drab grey over drab brown is that grey doesn't stick out as much. I just wish they could take a wrecking ball to the whole damn thing

Rizzo · #**517** Posted **Apr 2, 2018, 6:08 PM**

The bronze windows over the gray concrete isn’t working. I’m picking my battles here. Painting it off-white might have helped if paint was the only fix. A reclad in glass would have been the best option

LouisVanDerWright · #**518** Posted **Apr 3, 2018, 12:24 AM**

The real solution is to build three giant glass towers in front of it so it will reduced to merely lurking in the shadow of superior designs. This grey color will actually help make it disappear into the background once WPE and WPS are done.

Jibba · #**519** Posted **Apr 5, 2018, 5:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by Notyrview

Dude the grey looks absolutely awful. Honest to god.

I dunno, I like the gray. For a rectilinear and grid-patterned building like that, having a 'natural' color like the tan concrete conflicted with what the structure and form are saying. The grey looks crisp and offsets the dark windows wonderfully and makes their patterns pop.

230Roberto · #**520** Posted **Apr 5, 2018, 5:18 PM**

^Agreed it looks better in grey,but please paint the very top it looks stupid. It doesn't really matter though because in roughly 5 years the building would be lost.