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harryc · #**221** Posted **Mar 20, 2015, 3:04 AM**

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marothisu · #**222** Posted **Mar 20, 2015, 5:04 PM**

Walked by this for the first time yesterday. I thought it would look more massive but I think this is going to have a nice impact. I like the angles they're creating on the front for it.

Notyrview · #**223** Posted **Mar 20, 2015, 6:19 PM**

I like it too. I like that the corner adds an accent to the street wall.

the urban politician · #**224** Posted **Mar 20, 2015, 6:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by marothisu

I thought it would look more massive but I think this is going to have a nice impact. It's going to be massive and overwhelming and I'm really scared, I might go hide in a corner and cry.

^ Fixed that for ya

r18tdi · #**225** Posted **Mar 20, 2015, 9:00 PM**

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I thought it would look more massive but I think this is going to have a nice impact. It's going to be massive and overwhelming and I'm really scared, I might go hide in a corner and cry.

Lol sounds like Lincoln Park!

Notyrview · #**226** Posted **Mar 20, 2015, 9:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by the urban politician

^ Fixed that for ya

I'm surprised you think this. Must be really big in person. Canyons are good to an extent, but when you lose all perspective in them, they're no good.

the urban politician · #**227** Posted **Mar 20, 2015, 10:10 PM**

^ Canyons remind us of how mighty our cities are, and how small we are. They put us in our place. They, indeed, give us a lot of perspective.

Our cities transcend time. They transcend generations, politics, even nations. Truly great cities will last for centuries.

Canyons are a great physical embodiment of the power of the city over the human. Yet us humans can also revel in the fact that it is we who built them to begin with.

Notyrview · #**228** Posted **Mar 21, 2015, 12:27 AM**

Lol

ardecila · #**229** Posted **Mar 21, 2015, 1:39 AM**

^ Yeah, funny you're saying this to the guy in NYC....

The Loop is almost entirely canyonized anyway, so this doesn't really bother me. And it's not like there aren't good respites from that hemmed-in feeling... Daley Plaza is just across from this building, and there is also Exelon Plaza and Federal Plaza (all conveniently in a line in the dead center of the Loop). The river canyon is also a much grander space that breaks up the monotony, and of course Grant Park.

Complaining about canyons is a lot more valid in River North, where a lot of high-quality small-scale buildings still remain and give the place its character. Certainly highrises have their place there, of course, but I'd hate to see the lively bars and restaurants along Hubbard and Illinois replaced by continuous highrises.

Notyrview · #**230** Posted **Mar 21, 2015, 2:07 AM**

Oh please, no one's complaining about canyons, I'm weighing their merits, and too much of a good things, well, sucks. That's why I don't live in midtown, or Manhattan for that matter. As I've said before several times, Chicago's cityscape is far more enchanting than NYC's because of its sheer variety of heights and open spaces. Likewise, my statement to Urb was totally misinterpreted. I was trying to say that I was surprised to hear him decry the largeness of this project (which, I now take it, was sarcasm) and I don't have a problem with the size at all. I do take issue with Ayn Randian blah blah blah about man's whatever.

wierdaaron · #**231** Posted **Mar 21, 2015, 7:37 AM**

I think it's just a bit of a jarring change when you're used to a street feeling one way and then it changing to feel a different way. It's like if a house on your street changes colors and it bugs you at some level until you get used to it. The change isn't bad or good in itself, but it makes you notice that you notice. I felt something similar when I walked by this thing for the first time in a while and something felt off even though I fully knew about the construction going on. Its just an interesting thing, not a problem.

spyguy · #**232** Posted **Apr 1, 2015, 7:33 PM**

Untitled by gospastic, on Flickr

munchymunch · #**233** Posted **Apr 1, 2015, 7:40 PM**

uhhhh, ahhhhh. Nice find Spyguy.

Skyguy_7 · #**234** Posted **Apr 1, 2015, 8:29 PM**

^Good vantage point. Still don't know what's going on with the two varieties of curtainwall...

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wierdaaron · #**235** Posted **Apr 1, 2015, 8:46 PM**

I guess you can kinda see it on the west side of the render.

Kngkyle · #**236** Posted **Apr 2, 2015, 11:58 PM**

It's floating.

J_M_Tungsten · #**237** Posted **Apr 3, 2015, 1:41 AM**

Wow! That is cool. Engineering will never cease to amaze me.

Ned.B · #**238** Posted **Apr 3, 2015, 2:23 PM**

Hmm. The transition from steel to concrete is really fascinating in that picture. It's a shame that it's all going to get covered up.

harryc · #**239** Posted **Apr 13, 2015, 1:59 AM**

jcchii · #**240** Posted **Apr 13, 2015, 4:57 PM**

good to see the thing finally living up to its potential

is this now it or is there theoretically still a hotel tower pad available on the other side?