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Old Posted Dec 16, 2015, 4:11 PM
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Tower crane on its way down at Halstead and Lake today.
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Old Posted Dec 16, 2015, 6:07 PM
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^ need another Halsted start now
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Old Posted Dec 16, 2015, 6:30 PM
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Last week, somebody mentioned the very festive crane at Chicago and Hudson. Here it is



Courtesy CAB.
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Old Posted Dec 16, 2015, 7:32 PM
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^^ hehe that was me, although it is much more blue looking in person

not sure why that pic is purpleish
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Old Posted Dec 16, 2015, 7:47 PM
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Last week, somebody mentioned the very festive crane at Chicago and Hudson. Here it is
Love it. Reminds me of 2004 trip I took to Vancouver at the height of a construction boom where at least two dozen cranes were all illuminated with holiday lights.
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Old Posted Dec 16, 2015, 7:50 PM
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^ Well, Onni is a Vancouver company so that makes sense... lol.
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Old Posted Dec 16, 2015, 9:25 PM
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I truly can't wait to see the latest architectural gem Related deems fit to graciously bestow on us uncultured savages.
I like Handel.

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The only thing I don't like is that when it comes to highrises. Some of them look like they where designed by scb.

http://www.handelarchitects.com/projects.html
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Old Posted Dec 16, 2015, 9:27 PM
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The only thing I don't like is that when it comes to highrises. Some of them look like they where designed by scb.

http://www.handelarchitects.com/projects.html
The only thing you don't like is when they are designing the kind of building they are going to be designing. Handel and Related are a failing combination, just look at the 111 W Wacker trash. I'm not going to get my hopes up here.
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Old Posted Dec 16, 2015, 9:35 PM
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There's some news out that all Le Cordon Bleu in the US will be closing which really sucks. There are 1100 students in the Chicago area. However, this is right next to Next. Anyone want to take bets that someone will buy their building in Chicago and make a high rise on it?
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Old Posted Dec 16, 2015, 11:14 PM
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culinary schools are such a rip off, and Cordon Bleu in particular. no surprise there.

how anyone is expected to pay off those tuitions as minimum wage line chefs is beyond me. the kicker is you dont need a fancypants degree to do that job either. i think cooking shows and the foodie fad in general has skewed peoples perceptions of what that career track is really like.
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Old Posted Dec 16, 2015, 11:42 PM
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culinary schools are such a rip off, and Cordon Bleu in particular. no surprise there.

how anyone is expected to pay off those tuitions as minimum wage line chefs is beyond me. the kicker is you dont need a fancypants degree to do that job either. i think cooking shows and the foodie fad in general has skewed peoples perceptions of what that career track is really like.
I don't think the "foodie fad" has anything to do with anything. Anybody with half a brain, whether they love food or not, knows that it's hard to actually make a lot of money being a chef. I agree that some peoples' perceptions are skewed, but come on. I'd say that most "foodies" don't even aspire to be chefs. Business owners sometimes, maybe... Most just like different food and eating out. I don't describe myself as one but others might, but in no way do I or many of my friends like me ever want to be chefs, or think it's usually lucrative. Hell, I have one friend who's actually a really great home cook (SE Asian food) but she won't open up a restaurant because she's afraid of how much money she might lose doing it. Most people, especially those with friends who have ever worked in the industry, know these things.

Anyway - this building might become really attractive to a developer very soon.
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Old Posted Dec 17, 2015, 5:06 AM
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...The couple that has owned the 222-room Gold Coast hotel since 1989 plan to expand the property at 105 E. Delaware Place by 108 rooms, according to a person familiar with the plans. They would add most of the rooms by building an addition on the parking lot behind the hotel, the person said.
Same owners that are proposing the new South Loop hotel. This is a very tight site, so possibly a tower addition?

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Old Posted Dec 17, 2015, 3:13 PM
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does anyone here live/work in the vicinity of the tower of jewel (the sinclair)?

have those caisson rigs that showed up last week started drilling?
I passed by the site on my way to work this morning. I can confirm that the rigs were drilling.
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Old Posted Dec 17, 2015, 3:15 PM
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i passed by the site on my way to work this morning. I can confirm that the rigs were drilling.
BOOM!


thanks for the update.
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Old Posted Dec 17, 2015, 3:17 PM
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The only thing you don't like is when they are designing the kind of building they are going to be designing. Handel and Related are a failing combination, just look at the 111 W Wacker trash. I'm not going to get my hopes up here.
This being my problem. Whatever they come up with will then be VE'd to within an inch of it's life and end up cheap looking (because it is). Related is one company I'd be more than happy to see do less work here.
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Old Posted Dec 17, 2015, 10:09 PM
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Plotted under construction, site prep, and a selection of proposals on Google Maps:

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Old Posted Dec 17, 2015, 10:35 PM
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Old Posted Dec 17, 2015, 11:02 PM
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Solstice on the Park - revived

250 apartments, 316 spaces
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Old Posted Dec 17, 2015, 11:16 PM
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Is that? Cor ten steel? No way, slick as hell.
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Old Posted Dec 17, 2015, 11:23 PM
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my best guess is that it's just painted concrete.

if it's actually gonna be clad with cor-ten (aka the most amazing cladding material of all time), i'll eat my hat.

still very cool that it's coming back to life.
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