Height: 695 ft / 590 ft
Floor count:
Location: 630 North McClurg
Construction end:
Architect: Solomon, Cordwell, Buenz and Associates
Developer: Golub & Company

Renderings originally posted by BVictor
https://community.emporis.com/images/6/2008/04/607515.jpg

https://community.emporis.com/images/6/2008/04/607525.jpg

https://community.emporis.com/images/6/2008/04/607533.jpg

https://community.emporis.com/images/6/2008/04/607539.jpg

Chicago really likes its boxes

^ yes they do! And they build them with class, like this one. Looks nice!

Gorgeous base:)

Lovely transparent facade!

A typical example of American spirit of skyscrapers. Nice box. :yes:

Oh wow, again a realy nice box! Chicago shows the world boxes don't have to be ugly! :banana:

^^ I agree, these towers are elegant. :)

love the simplicity

yes me too, congrats chicago :okay:, hope they'll build the twins!

This is a very high quality design...very elegant.

yes me too, congrats chicago :okay:, hope they'll build the twins!

Doesn't look like it will have any problems with zoning and they're rental towers (with office space and retail) so you don't have to worry about sales.

Anyway, the site of the towers is also pretty interesting. It is the old CBS studio building, home to the first televised presidential debate between Kennedy and Nixon.
http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/158/218505204101e77ef611nz0.jpg
Joon Han/ flickr

gorgeous towers. Extremely nice in their simplicity. Hope they get built.
Can anybody show the impact on the skyline? I would do it if I knew how to use photoshop...

Very nice, especially at the base (as previously mentioned). I'd consider a darker shade of glass, but it's nice to see new proposals in the face of the credit crunch. This would've been a great design for Block 37.

I love it! :cheers:

gorgeous towers. Extremely nice in their simplicity. Hope they get built.
Can anybody show the impact on the skyline? I would do it if I knew how to use photoshop...


Yeah... Where the hell are those?!

Yeah... Where the hell are those?!


http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/7942/ccgq0.jpg

^^ Excellent.
So it's about 1 block west of the Onterie Center.
http://metprop.com/images/onterieexterior.gif

Here's a photo that i think is the area where it will be built. you can see that building posted by spyguy with the slanted roof in from of the Onterie Center i think

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3049/2414071847_19ee1464f7_b.jpg
http://flickr.com/photos/sygyzy/2414071847/in/photostream/

These are going to really stick out and hopefully add much more depth to that area of the skyline, hopefully they will fill the skyline role lost by the 680 N. Rush failure.

This is really a solid design, I'm glad to see this site put to such good use instead of being annexed into the Northwestern Hospital hellhole...

Looks like a glassy Grand Plaza redux. It still embodies the same developmental archetype, but at least it rids itself of Grand Plaza's most repugnant feature: the chintzy painted concrete.

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http://chicagojournal.com/main.asp?SectionID=46&SubSectionID=139&ArticleID=4662&TM=4443.153

Plan Commission approves McClurg high-rises
SOAR, Reilly support project that would replace

By Ben Myers

The Chicago Plan Commission Thursday approved two new mixed-use high-rises along the 600 block of North McClurg, between Erie and Ontario.
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Lee Golub, executive vice-president of Golub & Co., which proposed the project, said the company is committed to commemorating site's history. That could mean a statue in a 7,100-square-foot park, which is part of the proposal.

I was a bit puzzled by the name onterie of another tower mentioned earlier ... now I see how someone could come up with a strange name like that ... ontario and erie :lol:

anyway, great to see this project getting approved.

Another nice skyscraper for Chicago :)

I'm not a fan of boxes,but this one ins't that bad.The green glass seems great.

WOW, These building look great, Chicago doesn't stop amazing me!

Really like the design. Sometimes less is more.

Great scraper

man i wish this building would be developed in miami,fl

I'm sorry to bump the thread but... Is this just dead or...?
I mean... The market is returning now so... You know...

Hope that's clear! :)

^^Most likely dead. The developer basically traded the site for another smaller site a street or two south of this one.