Chicago’s Cutting-Edge Skyscraper: Inside New 1000M Building | The Power of Better | EP 5 

Totally agree!! Chicago needs to get with it and be the first American city to raise a 2000 footer. Don't let NY, Seattle, Houston, or Austin get it.

@@randysteele6741or Oklahoma City apparently

@@spacefun101 I saw that. Oklahoma City? Dang...

That sucks

High high🤑🤑

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.

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Hence why you're not in this line of work.

Louiss.. is 100% correct. This building and those who acclaim it - classic Emperor Has No Clothes acts... @@alrober1906

PS Announcer's voice way loud.

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.