Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Larger articles on Chicago architecture and culture.
Featured:
TUESDAY: Martin Adolfsson: Suburbia Gone Wild - MAS Context lecture at Public Works, June 18, 2013also TUESDAY Universal Design: 2013 Update at Hafele Chicago Showroom
Now Posted: the June Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events. Over 60 great items for your education and delight here
Follow us on: RSS • FACEBOOK • TWITTER • GOOGLE+
• Jeanne Gang before Aqua
• Aqua Refreshes the Chicago
Skyscraper
• Studio/Gang's Tower for
Prentice Hospital
• Mies at IIT
• Crown Hall: Mies Resurrected
• Farnsworth: Glass House
Struck by Gavel
• Farnsworth: The Little
Farmhouse that Roared
About Me
- Lynn Becker
- . . . writings on architecture have appeared in the Chicago Reader, Metropolis Magazine, the Harvard Design Magazine, and the backs of discarded gum wrappers. We reserve the right to delete posts that we judge spamatory, defamatory or unnecessarily obscene. If you prefer to berate me personally, email me here.
Blog Archive
Followers
Links
Total Pageviews
statcounter
4 comments:
Why oh why can't someone bend the developer/architect's ear to get them to continue the elegant lighting scheme on the garage floors? Juxtapose the lovely spiral garage ramp next to the Houston-sized parking garage in glass that the Tower looks like from the River side, complete with Sodium-Mercury vapor stadium lighting. It's the visual equivalent of drinking root beer with filet mignon.
Is frosted glass and flourescent tubing really too much of an expense for a building of this calibre?
I like root beer with just about anything. I agree about the lighting, though.
Why is no one else excited to see cars driving around the inside of a building? They did that frosted glass thing at the Hancock and it looks like crap. I just hope they have the sense to park all of the silver Bently's and lime green lamborghini's on the side facing the river. Look at the Marina Towers--it is the garage that absolutely makes the building. Cars are actually really pretty when you don't try to hide them with aesthetic gratings and materials that quickly get dirty from car fumes. All though I will agress that Sodium-Mercury lighting comes straight from the pit of hell.
Tatlin's Tower, anyone?
Post a Comment