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kolchak · #**3801** Posted **Jun 16, 2018, 6:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by vexxed82

And here's one my wife Amy took

Wow. Great pic Amy - I count six 800 ft towers in that shot!

Kumdogmillionaire · #**3802** Posted **Jun 16, 2018, 7:24 AM**

I'm counting at least 8 if we include Vista

Halovet · #**3803** Posted **Jun 16, 2018, 8:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by vexxed82

Still waititn on approval to share the shots I took on-site two weeks ago, but had a flight this AM and snapped a few.

Here's one I edited and shared to Twitter:

And here's one my wife Amy took

This is already AMAZING! Gotta Love The Chi man!

BorisMolotov · #**3804** Posted **Jun 16, 2018, 10:17 AM**

I know that they had the glass issues but it's still weird seeing a highrise project get this tall without any substantial glass installation.

i_am_hydrogen · #**3805** Posted **Jun 16, 2018, 10:16 PM**

Those are phenomenal, Nick!

chris08876 · #**3806** Posted **Jun 17, 2018, 3:07 AM**

I like the title of the photos. "Morning" aerials. Excellent shots Nick!

My mornings are filled with traffic, debris on the highways, and headaches. That's a hell of a morning for anybody, to be flying over the city. Lucky!

bnk · #**3807** Posted **Jun 17, 2018, 4:20 AM**

Nick

Some of the best photos in a group taken I have seen in almost ever.

The one looking in the background of the Aon Building...

I know this is about half way up but to be even taller than the Aon will be quite a feat for this building even though only the skinniest part will surpass it.

Your photos show how massive the Aon, previously BP, previously Standard Oil is and was. It was all by itself Just like the Sears and the JHC were in there day.

It was rather visionary to build all three of them so far apart from each other. At least the Sears had the rail network, the JHC had Michigan Ave address but the old Standard Oil building on or near streetervile at the time was just fill and full of train tracks far away from pretty much every way to get there.

Now things are blossoming around the Aon thanks to Millennium park and Maggie Daily park.

The Aon is one of my favorite buildings in Chicago. https://www.flickr.com/photos/fakeis...eal/2417819124 Towering above the than tallest building at the time the Prudential building to the west. Not to hijack but it was built in the same manner as the twin towers in NYC. https://openhousechicago.org/sites/site/aon-center/

Even this building is not taking the same risk as the Standard Oil did when they put down their roots.

This city is clearly amazing in so many ways.

Your helicopter ride made me also appreciate and re realize what Chicago built in the city years before most of SSP fourmers were even born yet.

kolchak · #**3808** Posted **Jun 17, 2018, 10:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by Kumdogmillionaire

I'm counting at least 8 if we include Vista

OK I give. I see ATT, Aqua, AON, Sears, Two Prudential, Lagacy and?

spidey7312 · #**3809** Posted **Jun 17, 2018, 2:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by kolchak

OK I give. I see ATT, Aqua, AON, Sears, Two Prudential, Lagacy and?

Chase Tower

LouisVanDerWright · #**3810** Posted **Jun 17, 2018, 2:46 PM**

What's more amazing about that shot is that there are only one, maybe two buildings visible that are architectural duds...

left of center · #**3811** Posted **Jun 17, 2018, 10:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright

What's more amazing about that shot is that there are only one, maybe two buildings visible that are architectural duds...

Yup.... Park Millennium.

It and its fugly neighbor the Fairmont Chicago could be imploded tomorrow and I honestly wouldn't mind. Their one saving grace is that they have slowly gotten surrounded by taller and much better looking buildings. Just need Site O and the empty lot along Stetson to finish the job. Although, sad to say that its unlikely anything will ever shield the building from the river.

left of center · #**3812** Posted **Jun 17, 2018, 10:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by BorisMolotov

I know that they had the glass issues but it's still weird seeing a highrise project get this tall without any substantial glass installation.

A bit reminiscent of this tower, located in the capital city of our president's newest BFF

Source: pintrest.com

Although it finally has been clad in glass a few years ago, after decades of sitting there as a massive, hulking concrete shell.

phanta721 · #**3813** Posted **Jun 19, 2018, 1:50 PM**

KWillChicago · #**3814** Posted **Jun 19, 2018, 1:55 PM**

^ Smoke on the water.

KWillChicago · #**3815** Posted **Jun 19, 2018, 2:04 PM**

Cool shot of what LSE looked like before alot of the present construction started. My guess would be early 2000's.
http://www.condopedia.com/wiki/File:...hicagoPark.jpg

Bombardier · #**3816** Posted **Jun 19, 2018, 2:36 PM**

Looks like some of that blank wall will be showing on the west elevation of Vista now that the height of Gems 2 has been reduced. That core is topped out. That is too bad...

Kumdogmillionaire · #**3817** Posted **Jun 19, 2018, 3:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by Bombardier

Looks like some of that blank wall will be showing on the west elevation of Vista now that the height of Gems 2 has been reduced. That core is topped out. That is too bad...

We can still hope that some maintenance stuff on top will block it off. Additionally, it's definitely tall enough that at street level, even across the river,
we will not see the wall. One floor of wall is hardly much to cry about

Kumdogmillionaire · #**3818** Posted **Jun 19, 2018, 3:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by KWillChicago

Cool shot of what LSE looked like before alot of the present construction started. My guess would be early 2000's.
http://www.condopedia.com/wiki/File:...hicagoPark.jpg

I would guess 2006 or 2007 for sure. The Chandler was finished in 2008

harryc · #**3819** Posted **Jun 19, 2018, 5:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by Bombardier

Looks like some of that blank wall will be showing on the west elevation of Vista now that the height of Gems 2 has been reduced. That core is topped out. That is too bad...

Isn't the blank wall for fire code ? - for that it needs to extend many floors above the adjacent building.

Bombardier · #**3820** Posted **Jun 19, 2018, 6:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by Kumdogmillionaire

We can still hope that some maintenance stuff on top will block it off. Additionally, it's definitely tall enough that at street level, even across the river,
we will not see the wall. One floor of wall is hardly much to cry about

I'm envisioning the top of Gems 2 similar to the top of Gems 1. You're probably right that it won't be seen from too many vantage points. I know they would have designed this wall of Vista differently if they would have known the final elevation of Gems 2.

Harry, you are correct that you need a 4 hour rated wall between buildings. Not sure how high up that has to go. My friend working on Vista said that elevation was designed before the height was dropped and it has caused some problems for Vista that they are now coordinating with Gems.