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Originally Posted by harryc
Diversity - it works
Feb 3 2014
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Originally Posted by nomarandlee
55 Wacker provides great contrast. It's The Renaissance Hotel at 1 W Wacker Dr. which I think looks far more out of place and is ripe for replacement given its recessed footprint due to its circular driveway right off Wacker. Not to mention a very uninspired design. Too bad that the building isn't that old and it will probably be a while until someone does put it out of its misery.
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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
+ 800 million billion trillion
55 West wacker is awesome! chicago only has one brutalist castle keep. hell, it might be the only one in the world. may it stand in all its glory forever.
but that shameful Renaissance Hotel should have been demo'd moments after it was built. truly the ugly, misplaced duckling in that dignified stretch of the wacker streetwall
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I'd like to add my voice to the chorus off 55 W Wacker supporters. I dig the diversity of styles along the river: You've got elegant revivalist architecture, Art Deco, classic Mid-Century Modern, Modernist off-shoots (like Marina City), Postmodern, "contemporary," and Brutalist, of which 55 W Wacker is the most prominent example.
I also dig the diversity in height. And if that's the sole criteria for judging the worth of buildings along the river, what would people target next for redevelopment? The Reid Murdoch Building? The Merchandise Mart?