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Old Posted Apr 4, 2018, 5:40 PM
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Oops. Gotta start reading more often. Haha.
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Old Posted Apr 4, 2018, 5:52 PM
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Anyone know if gems 2 is going to integrate their south deck into the vista walkway and extended deck or are they going to keep theirs completly private being a school? I would think they would have some form of connection for kids and workers to be able to walk through when their not getting dropped off/picked up in their folks bentleys.
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Just saw this on Building Up Chicago's Twitter...

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https://twitter.com/BuildUpChicago/s...65446365761536
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Old Posted Apr 5, 2018, 8:51 PM
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Will they be using different shades of blue each floor because otherwise I'm afraid it's not going to transition like in renderings unless the panels are angled!

But what do i know...
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Will they be using different shades of blue each floor because otherwise I'm afraid it's not going to transition like in renderings unless the panels are angled!

But what do i know...
The panels angled to me; not too sure about different shades, however; the shading in the renderings may just be to show the angling of the building, but we'll just have to wait and see
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Saran wrap.
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Saran wrap.
Same comment for literally every building in the entire city that's got a glass curtainwall. We have no idea what it will actually look like en masse or when the inside is actually climate controlled.
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Old Posted Apr 6, 2018, 3:23 PM
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The panels angled to me; not too sure about different shades, however; the shading in the renderings may just be to show the angling of the building, but we'll just have to wait and see
Number of shades is down to 8 - 9 (from 11 or so); it's in the revised PD docs, same revision that includes the addition of the blow-through floor.
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Same comment for literally every building in the entire city that's got a glass curtainwall. We have no idea what it will actually look like en masse or when the inside is actually climate controlled.
In addition to the lack of climate control, photos taken at a longer focal length (zoomed in) will quite literally magnify these distortions from a distance. These distortions would not appear as pronounced in-person or if you are standing close to the building.
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In addition to the lack of climate control, photos taken at a longer focal length (zoomed in) will quite literally magnify these distortions from a distance. These distortions would not appear as pronounced in-person or if you are standing close to the building.
And despite this fact being repeated several times over the last 2 years we will still have ninnies crying about glass quality in the middle of winter lol
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^ Great shots, Le Baron!

From that vantage, Vista should appear to top out at just under the height of the Aon Center. That's going to add a hell of a lot of bulk to the skyline. And, as predicted several weeks back, it wont fully block the view of OBP from that angle either. For better or for worse...
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back in the '70s LSD flowed freely here




Note the beams to carry the horizontal lines on - even where there is no floor plate.


Caulking and insulating the edges of the floor plate - the origin of the horizontal lines


Continuing the lines again - when there is no floorplate - looks like these guys have an easier time of it than the crew that is doing the edges.


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Old Posted Apr 7, 2018, 10:51 PM
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The staircase in the 3rd to last pick is neat!

We finally get to see her glass!
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back in the '70s LSD flowed freely here
Very cool, I had just learned that lot too long ago

Charles Cushman, Indiana University Archives, 1963 - https://forgottenchicago.com/pics/LSD/cushscurve.jpg
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Very cool, I had just learned that lot too long ago

Charles Cushman, Indiana University Archives, 1963 - https://forgottenchicago.com/pics/LSD/cushscurve.jpg
They should have never screwed with Navy Pier. It would have become Chicago's Fort Mason. Instead its Chicago's Pier 39
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^ Pier 39 is much more popular with tourists than Fort Mason. And Navy Pier is the #1 tourist destination in the entire Midwest. Like it or not, being a "Pier 39" draws in a hell of a lot more tourist dollars than if they left it as a museum to lake shipping and naval activities.
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Manufacturing is dead, tourism is booming... that would have been a moronic decision and would just lead to us being in greater debt. I don't like Navy Pier other than the views of the city it provides, but I'm so happy we can milk so many millions of dollars out of it for the city.

As for staying on topic... that picture of Vista between the two highrises in a gray sky gives me Soviet Russia or winter in Northern Chinese cities vibes haha
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Took an Uber driving north on LSD a couple nights ago and it looked really good with the construction lights on. I should've taken a picture.
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