Any project that intends to surpass the height of the Sears Tower needs to do it by a few hundred feet higher or more. It needs to be a bold design that makes a bold statement and be just as iconic as the Sears Tower has been for over fifty years. Anything less would be unworthy and not in the spirit of Chicago. Go big, go hard and go higher.
How come America likes to keep building these very same old boring type looking sky scrapers and nothing as iconic like the ones they're building overseas like in China / Japan / Saudi Arabia ?
@@Konnersaki The very Same and plain type of simple boring Designs throughout each city in American society ! The local public and tourists would like to see more beautiful and taller iconic designs like over in Asia / Arabia !
Chicago is a beautiful city on the lake, with a very elegant skyline and one of the best in the world. I'm wishing this city can turn some of the negativity around because, I believe that's holding it back from its true potential. Best of luck Chicago.
Chicago has so much potential to become almost as huge as New York skyline because it is the 7th city in the world with the most skyscrapers and 2nd most skyscrapers in North America but would be surpassed in a bit by Toronto
@@adielgonzalez4738 Which is why we need a better mayor. The one we have right now doesn’t care about infrastructure. We’re only going backwards with him.
Chicago has so many potentials to build more super tall buildings along the lake from south loop to uptown. I would love to see that happen one day. A view of the lake in your living room would be amazing.
The designer is probably afraid of the attention the tallest building in the city would get. People would debate if the design is worthy of being the tallest building. All of the press the building would get if it was the tallest would be a dream come true for an investor and the project would likely get built much faster.
I don't think they're willing to build anything taller than the Sears Tower in Chicago and if they do then it will possibly be within the next 20 years !
It’s still among the best buildings in the entire country. It is bigger than One World Trade Center significantly overall. It’s a very large building, and many peoples favorites in the country. It would be a disservice to the city to make anything near that size
@@ChiraqMaybach-ii9wm I’d argue that Chicago the origin of skyscrapers, should build the first mile high skyscraper. A modern redesign of Frank Lloyd Wright’s The Illinois.
Wow, small channel but top notch content. I'm getting in on the ground floor here. Subscribed. I've always hoped for Chicago to have a new modern era of forward thinking developmentment. Luxury residential highrises make me cringe so I'm less interested in those, but the projects proposed at the end offer so much potential to create real positive movement to the city and surrounding areas if done well.
We can still be proud that the tallest buildings in the world are designed by Chicago architecture firms. As for building the tallest here - we are way past bragging era, now everything depends on if it makes financial sense. If it does not, nothing will be built, case in point: Chicago Spire.
@@tylerclayton6081 Yep, and that building will be over 1,900 feet tall. So Chicago would have to build something 500 feet taller than the Willis (Sears) Tower to be the tallest in the country.
Eight feet might not seem like much relative to these heights, but on paper where the architectural layout is designed, eight feet is a lot of space and space that needs utility. I would like to see the next building that intends to surpass the height of the Sears Tower to do it by at least one hundred feet or higher. It needs to be a bold design that makes a statement and blends seamlessly into our skyline.
@@EternalEyeofRafacts. I don’t know when they’re going to break ground for the construction of the tribune east tower, it was supposed to begin in February of this year but I can’t find any updates on it. That Chicago spire would’ve made our skyline look sick and would’ve gave Chicago a whole new vibe.
I believe the designer is afraid of the attention the tallest building in the city would get. People would debate if the design is worthy of being the tallest building. All of the press the building would get if it was the tallest would be a dream come true for an investor and the project would likely get built much faster.
1000M has about as much character as O’Hare Airport (I.E., none). It’s too bad the Spire was never built. Its design was very pretty. Instead of a new tallest building, let’s build a massive dome over the entire city and make a real life version of the Truman Show.
Well that’s nice to know .. Within the last 10 years in NYC there’s been massive amounts of new skyscrapers that’s been built. The New York City skyline DOSENT looks like NYC I grew up in anymore, mind u I’m 32 so I still remember NY gritty 😢
Yeah agree. "Great cities" of the past, had some tall buildings, but also neighbourhoods and ground level restaurants and shopping. But we have seen that these low rise buildings and parking lots don't exist now. It's all skyscrapers either residential or commercial. Impossible to get around, and the soul of the city has vanished.
The WFH trend is growing while office buildings downtown sit empty. I don’t understand where the demand for these towers is coming from. Unless they are planned for residential use?
As a Chicago native, I believe the city should deny a building permit for the proposed Tribune East tower. It is much too tall for its site near the Chicago River, and it will destroy the landmark vista of the Wrigley building and Tribune Tower.
All this while gangs of youths descend upon certain parts of downtown wrecking havoc, but they're only kids looking something to do says the new useless mayor.
That's a lot of new residential for City that is hemorrhaging residents. I love the City, but it is in a sad state of affairs currently, with its current worse-than-terrible leadership.
Turn off the TV and doomer news and realize that the city is not in decline for residents, and that these wouldn’t be built if there wasn’t a demand for them.
@@johnkeviljr9625 Cities building goes up and down. In the 2000's, people talked about Chicago's reduction of new building then the 2010's was a huge boom where over 60 cranes a day could be seen. No one who follows building construction expect a city (outside of NYC) to stay on a high.Chicago actually has several proposals being held up by local aldermen who have the most power of any big city local councilmen in the country. Also, the city is currently trying to speedup the approval process. Chicago is not a Toronto, where buildings get build with almost no process.
Why do we need it, really? Just for bragging rights? I think, we are way over this stage of development as a city/country. Let cities that have more money than common financial sense build those and pay our Chicago architecture firms to do this ). What we need to do now to make sure any new building is fitting harmoniously into existing skyline. One supertall of 2500+ will stick like a sore thumb and will make the rest of the skyline look diminished in comparison.
With all the "teen" violence, car jackings, CTA violence, and major companies leaving....there will be no more large projects. This city will go the way of Detroit. Diversity is Chicago's strength!
@@trongriffinproductions7159 You have not lived and have not worked in downtown/MagMile, when you look down from your office and see those "youth" and think, how do i pass through this wild crowd at the end of workday, and if i get into a store, will i be able to get out, or my exit will be blocked by people who "have nothing to do". This all has happened before 2020, and i am not even sure what's going on there now.
Several of the buildings referenced here will never be started or finished. The Chicago economy sucks. Think of the Chicago economy of the early 1980's.
Are you saying the third-largest economy sucks? Chicago's economy is much larger than every Midwest state. Are you saying every Midwest city and state economy is terrible?
commercial leases are down, new construction is down, unemployment is not improving, Chicago has the third largest population drop behind Philadelphia and NYC. Caterpillar, Boeing, Tyson, Citadel Investments, Stellantis, Schumacher, and United have all left Chicago and freed up large tracts of office space with few takers to lease to. Crime is up in Chicago. So you tell me how strong is the Chicago economy? @@trongriffinproductions7159
@@trongriffinproductions7159 I posted a cogent argument to defend my stance but soon after I posted it, it disappeared. I guess it didn't match the Muzak that the city and realtors are playing.
