11/14/2022 0 Comments Jonathan splitt architects ltd![]() It really was not clear if the neighborhood is welcome to the development at this time. Looks a bit more like a lighting bolt.Ĭlick to expand.I just came back from this meeting. The renderings that were posted of it being a graceful S similar to River City seemed to have changed. We got a glimpse of the Almi building to the south of this project. One of the Folio owners seemed to give the developer their due for the setbacks and landscape elements on Polk and the Park on Clark. I have a feeling that if there is decent sales we could see this completed well before that. The timeline sounded like tower 1 in 2009 and then the 2nd and 3rd towers completed by 2011. But most anything is better than vacant land. Fairly simple glass tower, 3 story parking garage on Polk with a roof top tennis court and green space, recessed and semi-recessed balconies. Only had a rendering of the 1st building. The first on at the corner of Polk and Clark is to be 34 stories the other two are 40+. Even the unmatched genious of Helmut Jahn is reportedly designing a South Loop condo tower!ĭid anyone else go to the meeting at Grace Place tonight?ģ buildings being proposed by Lenar Builders. Even more exciting are prospects for the future – potentially more modern and innovative designs for the South Loop are on the horizon. Coming additions such as Vetro, 1620 Michigan, 1720 Michigan, 1401 State, 1555 Wabash and others will be brilliant additions. In other places throughout the South Loop, high-quality progressive architecture is also making waves. What’s more, the next buildings to rise – One Museum Park East, 1400 Museum Park, One Museum Park West and 1600 Museum Park are better still. The two newest additions, Sky55 and Museum Tower, are the highest quality to come out of that project yet. With each new building that arrises from Central Station, the quality of design has improved. Rater, today the best of contemporary innovation is being promoted, accepted and celebrated like never before in Chicago residential development. Gone are the days when designs had to be retro, neo-traditional, faux historical junk to get through city hall and appease the most simple-minded, unsophosticated of neighbors. To respond to Ron – the aesthetic quality of residential high-rise architecture in Central Station and the South Loop is clearly improving by leaps and bounds. ![]()
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