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I don't see nothing cutting edge, a 5 year old could've designed this and you wouldn't know. How embarrassing, I wouldn't even brag about this to Milwaukee.
This is honestly a very nice building, but I challenge the city of Chicago to approve plans to build the world’s tallest skyscraper similar to what was done with the Spire 15 years ago! Like stop only building moderately tall skyscrapers we have enough of those already!
Calling it "an architectural marvel" is quite a stretch. It's just another absurdly priced high-rise. Chicago will be the next San Francisco in a couole more years, thanks to absurd real estate projects and skyrocketing cost of living. Projects like this only benefit the developers, not the community at large.
Skyscrapers still must deal with gravity. Curious how no one ever talks about the distribution of steel and distribution of concrete down such structures. The tallest 100 buildings around the world are over 300 meters tall. It cannot really be a deep dark secret regarding how to figure out such things. Look at the shape of the Eiffel Tower. It is 130 years old.
This is a nice building overall and will have a transformative impact on the South Loop skyline but I can't get over the jarring transition between the base and the tower. It's like two different buildings arbitrarily stacked on top of each other. Separately the designs would be better but as one building it is very lacking in cohesion. A boxier tower with sharp corners belongs on this base where as the tower would look nicer on a base with a bowing facade that complements it's curves.
100% u r! Bravo! Ridiculous those who pretend Jahn was anything other than Primadona at the end. He HAD a chance to do something remarkable for Chicago here. Simple design changes to base would, have made a massively better building.
It's cheap-looking and the base is, frankly, awful. It is surrounded by far superior newer towers! Jahn died recklessly riding his bike. That Karma carried over to this recklessly designed high-rise.
Demeaning someone in some vengeful manner of Karma I imagine has a ideology component. We in this country build with restrictive price-points on architects. In Dubai with oil money and cheap migrant labor I am sure Jahn would have given us much more. I still admire his older Chicago buildings like the former Thompson Center built in like 85. The post-modern extravagance still shows, but last minute cost-cutting had it clad in far inferior glass that tortured its cooling and heating systems and the state of IL neglected upgrades for decades. It currently is being re-imagined and will be re-clad in proper glass for Google's Chicago base. The atrium is still a wonder and will also have changes as its coral and blues some might see as gaudy gone. Still to remain open public space. Jahn's Wacker Drive others 80s structure being mirrored and it also still stands out today in its angles on that street of office towers. Higher a building goes prices skyrocket and go beyond luxury prices for ultra-rich. There never will be a super-tall office glory tower to a corporation again. They rather a cheap set of boxes in a office park and maybe on central structure extras. It is about built for a purpose of max use least cost to make $$$. This building in the sunbelt not Miami would be touted for their arrival as many still get few this large all-residential. Chicago still managed a latest super-tall in the final states of completion former Vista Tower to the St Regis tower with hotel naming rights also luxury residences and clearly less than a basic box of glass. In chat forums some in these fast growing cities and states still dream of who will get the next supertall (actually first) not named Miami that already is and boast of growth for the cheaper that more and more is not. Chicago still shows the mite of Corporate America and that you can only steal so much as structures cannot be relocated. Such a core if it did lose glory would tell a lot of American decline along with NYC if stealing to the sunbelt is a necessary move to save a business for shareholder profits on the cheap and lucrative incentives of paying them to move basically by some states. All billed as about good business. Urbanophiles hate the fact these are podium towers also and Chicago did fully adopt and adapt to podiums as standard for decades now where one can still afford luxury towers with parking for your signature luxury toy having its own bedroom too. Still surprises me many sunbelt cities still rather a parking deck separate from the tower taking up more land and even killing intersections with nothing on their base now for decades.
@@davidw7You are judgmental. What Dubai and oil money has to do with your comment. What about cheap labor here in the USA? Who picks your fruits and veggies?
@@sidsid9808 That is migrant labor on the farms... I am talking BIG CITIES or even small cities. Most cities have UNION LABOR mandated. So DUBAI brings in what... INDIAN or PAKISTAN Laborers to work Cheap.... Look up how Dubai built the Burj Kalifa Tower... it basically used slave labor very low pay and would not give visas to leave till it was finished.... MANY DIED. Look that up. $4 per day the migrants from southeast Asia got paid. Those workers toiled 12 hour a day, 6 days a week for pay as little as $4 per day. The workers continuously protested against the poor working conditions and low pay, despite the fact that strikes and unionizing are illegal according to UAE law. "On average a migrant construction worker earns $175 a month (the average per capita income in the UAE is $2,106 a month). Chicago and most US cities require UNION laborers or WAAAAY More than $4 a day. Try $30.00 a hr and up. SO PLEEEEZE. No comparison. With all the oil money DUBAI Can pay much more.... there are links of how much to build in Dubai vs Paris, NYC, CHI and HOU. NYC is the most expnensive to build up. Chicago is next, cheaper in the sunbelt... still way up there and no migrant labor.... some might try ... just do not get caught especially illegal labor.
Thank you to the members of local 134! Terrific job! Rebuilding Together Metro Chicago appreciates your contribution to making our homes safe and secure!
