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marothisu · #**3621** Posted **May 18, 2018, 2:30 AM**

LOL wow I legit thought it was real before being like "wait a minute - it's not that tall yet" - super convincing.

SteelMonkey · #**3622** Posted **May 18, 2018, 2:32 PM**

That is so dope! I'm in Marothisu's camp - total head fake. Nice work NU

sentinel · #**3623** Posted **May 18, 2018, 2:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by vexxed82

Thanks everyone! Appreciate the compliments.

Decided to experiment a little bit...

Shit, that totally fooled me!

A.Mazing.

vexxed82 · #**3624** Posted **May 18, 2018, 3:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chi-Sky21

What!? you couldnt put glass on it too!! 8) JK BRAVO!

They might be done with it before I am

rgarri4 · #**3625** Posted **May 18, 2018, 10:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by vexxed82

Thanks everyone! Appreciate the compliments.

Decided to experiment a little bit...

That's awesome haha! Hopefully we don't have to wait till its this tall to see more glass.

JMKeynes · #**3626** Posted **May 18, 2018, 10:16 PM**

Really nice!

HomrQT · #**3627** Posted **May 18, 2018, 11:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by vexxed82

Thanks everyone! Appreciate the compliments.

Decided to experiment a little bit...

Woah. Bravo.

SolarWind · #**3628** Posted **May 20, 2018, 5:12 AM**

May 15, 2018

harryc · #**3629** Posted **May 20, 2018, 1:05 PM**

May 15

kolchak · #**3630** Posted **May 21, 2018, 6:31 AM**

Spectacular shots! Those shadows look more pronounced than in the renderings. This is gonna look amazing

r18tdi · #**3631** Posted **May 21, 2018, 1:54 PM**

Quick little video from the Trib:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/m...55014-132.html

Notyrview · #**3632** Posted **May 21, 2018, 2:28 PM**

Great shots, Harry. It's surreal how a supertall literally creates a new cityscape all around it. We'll be discovering new vistas of this one for quite a while.

patriotizzy · #**3633** Posted **May 21, 2018, 3:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by Notyrview

Great shots, Harry. It's surreal how a supertall literally creates a new cityscape all around it. We'll be discovering new vistas of this one for quite a while.

I see what you did there dad

left of center · #**3634** Posted **May 21, 2018, 5:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by vexxed82

Thanks everyone! Appreciate the compliments.

Decided to experiment a little bit...

Goddamn, son!

I was out of town for the weekend, and reading SSP for the first time since Thursday. I was convinced for a split second that somehow Vista doubled in height in the last 72 hours!

Excellent Photoshop skills!

HiRiser · #**3635** Posted **May 22, 2018, 2:26 AM**

Seriously, the facade is so far behind on this project that it reminds me of construction technique in China or the Middle East. A project going up in Melbourne Australia (Aus108) depicts how a curtainwall can chase the structure.

Blahshead · #**3636** Posted **May 22, 2018, 11:40 AM**

For an architecture/construction newbie--is it bad to not put the curtain wall up sooner? What are some of the advantages?

At NEMA they put up yellow barriers to act in place of glass but here we don't have that. Is there any particular reason why? Will no glass reduce the quality of the concrete?

Skyguy_7 · #**3637** Posted **May 22, 2018, 12:25 PM**

^At NEMA, those yellow barriers are actually metal studs/drywall. Very expensive means of a guardrail system and none of us here can quite figure out why they did that. My guess is that they were aware of the glass delay and wanted to proceed with interiors. But then again, those levels might be the parking garage..

And a simple answer to your question is the sooner glass goes up, the sooner they can finish the buildout, the sooner they can turnover the building to tennants; the sooner they start making money.

harryc · #**3638** Posted **May 22, 2018, 12:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by Blahshead

For an architecture/construction newbie--is it bad to not put the curtain wall up sooner? What are some of the advantages?

At NEMA they put up yellow barriers to act in place of glass but here we don't have that. Is there any particular reason why? Will no glass reduce the quality of the concrete?

Concrete is pretty weather proof.

Waterview waiting.

vexxed82 · #**3639** Posted **May 22, 2018, 3:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by left of center

Goddamn, son!

I was out of town for the weekend, and reading SSP for the first time since Thursday. I was convinced for a split second that somehow Vista doubled in height in the last 72 hours!

Excellent Photoshop skills!

Ha, thanks. It was a fairly easy edit al things considered. Because this photo is in (mostly) one point perspective, all I had to do was outline & copy some frustums, then scale them down to align with the actual photo and it pretty much took care of itself. Took maybe 10 minutes. Believe me, scaled to 100%, it's pretty janky.

The only tricky part was the east side of the west tower. I used the eastern wall of the east tower from another photo I took a few moments later, then distorted it to match the perspective so it gave depth to the to of the building.

Notyrview · #**3640** Posted **May 22, 2018, 5:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by harryc

May 15

Nice pics, Harry. I think this one shows that the glass is decidedly more green than the many blue glass buildings around it which is a good thing.