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Originally Posted by AdrianXSands
i'm not trying to be an asshole; what do you guys see in this? please tell me.
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your black and white understanding of our built environment is way too simplistic for me. is OMP a great building? hardly. is it an ok building? yes.
there's a difference between shit and average, however, from all of your posts on this forum it seems as though you believe that if a new project isn't some mind-blowing, form-busting, avant-guard breakthrough of a building then it's a pile of worthless horse manure. only a few buildings get to be great, the VAST majority of chicago's, or any city's, skyline is made up of average looking buildings. they're not amazing, but they're not shit either. they just are what they are. OMP is solidly in this group of good, not great, buildings.
as for what i specifically like about OMP, i like it for its humor. as i stated so many years ago, it's a broad-shouldered, chicago-framed man standing on the south side in a miami suit. it's certainly a tower that doesn't take itself too seriously, but in a fun way not the cartoonish, stupid fashion like some of the early pomo central station towers. i'm still a little annoyed with the massing towards the top (the earlier versions with the elongated central tower element had better proportions), but over all it's got a pretty good skin, offers an interesting form we haven't really seen before in chicago, and is really starting to fit into its role standing sentinel over the south end of GP. because of its location, this one wins big points for its size, scale, and height alone. the skyline had been crying out for generations for something of this scale to be built down there. grant park is naked no more.