Official: Ultimate CHICAGO boom rundown

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:35 pm

i put the Sears Tower next to the FNC on skyscraperpage.com and the FNC comes up to almost the 1st setback on the Sears Tower.

http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?17283813

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:39 pm

Wow, that almost makes me a little said. One more thing to factor in the equation Wags is perception of distance.

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:42 pm

Look at the impact some of the mega towers have on the skyline that will come out of the condo boom.

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:53 pm

WOW I LOVE YOU CHICAGO.
I and DTO are taking a trip to there soon I can’t wait. We are doing the whole downtown thing (most likely not sneaking onto the roofs of their buildings). But nonetheless we will be in and out of every freaking crevice in the loop.

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Mon May 22, 2006 6:17 pm

They got the Aqua tower up on skyscraperspage now
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=46482

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Mon May 22, 2006 9:44 pm

been there a few months now. I really like it. It's a mix between the IBM building and Marina City towers w/ a futuristic interpretation.

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Mon May 22, 2006 9:46 pm

Infact, the Aqua shows its presence in the skyline in the image I posted above. It's right behind BCBS building on the right side of the animation.

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Mon May 22, 2006 10:00 pm

O ya I never noticed that, cool.

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:10 pm

Nice Chicago skyline avatar MTO.

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:12 pm

I'm glad someone finally noticed. Thanks Vanzee. Hey since your the expert. What are those to biggies they are building south of Sears? Do you know there names?

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:43 pm

What do you mean south of Sears tower? South in the skyline or south nearby the building?

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:01 pm

the ones over here (south)

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:06 pm

Yep, okay. Here you go:

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:50 pm

Thanks soo much! I've been wondering those ever since I saw that model. I knew you would know.

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 8:43 pm

My bad, 830 S Michigian. Not 820. If it even matters.

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 9:31 pm

I do I was going to see what they looked like in their renderings.

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 10:07 pm

They are on page 1, but there are no renderings for 830 S Michigan yet.

SaOmaha · Post by **SaOmaha** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 8:24 pm

I have some interests in two 1000+ foot skyscraper being built on the north shore of Chicago River.

The Chicago River - Navy pier portion of MTC’s Future Chicago skyline diagram.
Trump Tower and Spire is on the left, Nary Pier is on Right.

First one is on the lakefront, west of the Navy Pier.
The Chicago Spire. Formerly the Fordham Spire

http://www.thechicagospire.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Spire

This Widipedia article, near the bottom, has a video of the Chicago skyline and inside/outside views of the ChicagoSpire with the comments by the architect.

Rendering of the Chicago Spire from the Widipedia article

This building received the Popular Science Best of what 07's Engineering Grand award winner.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/ ... em_39.html Â Â

The other one, few blocks up the Chicago River, is on the site of the old Chicago Sun-Times building, east of Marina City (twin round towers)

Trump International Hotel and Tower
http://www.trumpchicago.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Inte ... Chicago%29

Rendering of the Trump Tower from the PDF Brochure
http://www.trumpchicago.com/brochure.pdf

nativeomahan · Post by **nativeomahan** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:28 pm

Is it me or does that project not resemble the world's largest screw? Â

thenewguy · Post by **thenewguy** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 6:09 am

::wait for remark from Big E to DTO

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SabrinaFaire · Post by **SabrinaFaire** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:00 pm

nativeomahan wrote:Is it me or does that project not resemble the world's largest screw?

Most people I know here in Chicago think it looks like a big thingy.

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:58 pm

And we can't say h e l l?

Anyway, you must be thinking of the gherkin in London:

-Big ghErkin

nativeomahan · Post by **nativeomahan** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:38 pm

SabrinaFaire wrote:
nativeomahan wrote:Is it me or does that project not resemble the world's largest screw?
Most people I know here in Chicago think it looks like a big thingy.

ROFLMAO!

nebport5 · Post by **nebport5** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:15 am

If you ask me the Chicago Spire is completely heinous, a skyline destroyer and reason enough to move. Â

thenewguy · Post by **thenewguy** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:46 am

yeah, it doesn't really fit, but it will surely bring lots of people to Chicago that may have not been there before...as if Chicago didn't have a lot to offer already. Â I'm sure it will grow on people after time; Parisians didn't want the Eiffel Tower built when it was built, either. Â Now it's highly revered. Â We'll see, i just wish the Spire wasn't designed like a huge drill bit.

SabrinaFaire · Post by **SabrinaFaire** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:48 am

thenewguy wrote:yeah, it doesn't really fit, but it will surely bring lots of people to Chicago that may have not been there before...as if Chicago didn't have a lot to offer already. I'm sure it will grow on people after time; Parisians didn't want the Eiffel Tower built when it was built, either. Now it's highly revered. We'll see, i just wish the Spire wasn't designed like a huge drill bit.

Yep. People hated the Picasso statue when it went up but now it's a Chicago icon.

nebport5 · Post by **nebport5** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:19 pm

its not going to grow on me in this lifetime...and by that logic I guess we ought to build that damned vortex.

ShawJ · Post by **ShawJ** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 4:24 pm

adam186 wrote:What building would you like mostly to be built in Omaha? Not necessarily the tallest, but a good design that would fit into Omaha skyline perfectly.

Also, I'm going to update the rundown so the pics have the height on them as well. Please POST anything.

You asked this question quite some time ago, but I still want to answer .

I think the "One Museum Park West" would look pretty good in the Omaha skyline.

http://www.emporis.com/en/il/im/?id=435417

Although, most of our buildings downtown are square/rectangular. Might want something with a little more uniqueness to it.

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:38 pm

Haha, hey thanks ShawJ!

I really do like that building, especially the glassy spiral on the top. Â Would add a nice peak in our flat topped skyline.

ShawJ · Post by **ShawJ** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:08 pm

I'm sure this building was on the first page, but I absolutely love it. One of the better buildings I've seen in a while.

thenewguy · Post by **thenewguy** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:34 am

aside from the fact that i definitely need to get back to Chicago soon, i noticed some new buildings going up in the background at Obama's victory rally. Â I'm going to head over to skyscrapers.com to see if i can figure out new ones going up...