CHICAGO | Highrise Projects & Construction, v7

[Domer2019]

Originally Posted by jpIllInoIs

Never once heard either of those references... not once until this writing: Maybe there is an alt.skyscraper forum.

I don't think he's saying these are commonly accepted nicknames (e.g. Big Stan), but rather that it has evoked being dubbed various nicknames in a grassroots sense given its unique form (i.e. people conversing among friends while walking past, and then maintaining that moniker in future discourse).

[gebs]

Originally Posted by Domer2019

I don't think he's saying these are commonly accepted nicknames (e.g. Big Stan), but rather that it has evoked being dubbed various nicknames in a grassroots sense given its unique form (i.e. people conversing among friends while walking past, and then maintaining that moniker in future discourse).

Maybe it's similar to how 1000 S Michigan has been called "Big Jahn", a playful appropriation of "Big John" Hancock Center. Although if Jahn's rendering for the Thompson Center replacement gets built, that would certainly usurp the title.

[vexxed82]

Originally Posted by jpIllInoIs

Never once heard either of those references... not once until this writing: Maybe there is an alt.skyscraper forum.

I have heard it referred to as a tuning fork before, but not guillotine.

[BrinChi]

Will this facade be put back on in the renovation?

Originally Posted by emathias

Renovation of 676 N Lasalle in the foreground, with the Ed Dubevick's and Gino's East towers in the right rear.

[kolchak]

Haha. I guess he must read this forum. I was maybe one of the first here to criticize 150 as derivative of the Abu Dahbi buildings but I was wrong in my earlier opinion as to how the finished product would look. The massing is better and the cladding came out really well. It is a good looking tower.

[Skyguy_7]

I just read on the interwebs that construction at the hotel at 123 E Cermak is currently on hold, pending testing of all the caissons. They found an issue with a few of them. We might not see Michaels out on any new job sites for a while.

Via Curbed

[Le Baron]

[J_M_Tungsten]

^ nice update! I didn't realize all of that was currently going on.

[Notyrview]

Some sexy stuff happening down here

[BVictor1]

Originally Posted by Skyguy_7

I just read on the interwebs that construction at the hotel at 123 E Cermak is currently on hold, pending testing of all the caissons. They found an issue with a few of them. We might not see Michaels out on any new job sites for a while.

Interesting... The JHC also had caisson issues back in the day.

[chicubs111]

^^^
Those disgusting rusty statues are the absolute worst!..Cant we get some normal pleasant sculptures instead of always these award abstract crap placed in the middle of our signature park... So cheap and amateurish looking..smh

[Kumdogmillionaire]

Originally Posted by chicubs111

^^^
Those disgusting rusty statues are the absolute worst!..Cant we get some normal pleasant sculptures instead of always these award abstract crap placed in the middle of our signature park... So cheap and amateurish looking..smh

Please be sarcasm...

[ithakas]

Originally Posted by chicubs111

^^^
Those disgusting rusty statues are the absolute worst!..Cant we get some normal pleasant sculptures instead of always these award abstract crap placed in the middle of our signature park... So cheap and amateurish looking..smh

Yeah, contemporary art has no place in Chicago. We need more Brand Plazas, Chicubs...

http://www.richardgraygallery.com/ar...na-abakanowicz

[the urban politician]

^ I like that art display, my only criticism being the patches of concrete they stand on. They should've been depicted walking on the grass.

[Mr Downtown]

^But part of the work is for viewers to circulate among the torsos, feeling small and insignificant, like a child in a crowded marketplace. Imagine how barren and muddy the site would be if the torsos were wandering in actual grass.

[Le Baron]

[Le Baron]

[Notyrview]

Chicubs, I agree in part. An installation about the cubby hole by Jenny Holzer would be far better.

[The Lurker]

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