And with that tweet, The John Buck Company announced that 3Eleven now has its own website. So in addition to looking fantastic in the sunlight, you can now find 3Eleven on the interwebs.
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Category Archives: Residential
Construction Progress: Studio Gang’s Solstice on the Park
Solstice On The Park will reside at the corner of South Cornell Avenue and East 56th Street.
On a previous visit to Hyde Park, less than two months ago, Solstice On The Park had just erected its tower crane, and construction was still in the groundwork stage. Apparently, crews from Linn-Mathes have continues to work even though I wasn’t around to track their progress.
Solstice On The Park, the “other” big residential project from Studio Gang (I assume you’ve heard of Wanda Vista Tower?) is coming along quite nicely. A development from Antheus Capital, it will deliver 250 apartments within its 27 stories, stacked atop 300+ parking spaces, all capped off by a green roof.
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- Rendering of Solstice On The Park from Studio Gang.
Landmark West Loop takes over where 1035 West Van Buren began
From this day forward, 1035 West Van Buren would like to be called Landmark West Loop.
You know the guy at the office who refills the stapler for you, then staples the last four pages together and takes credit for the TPS reports you spent all week working on? Well, that’s a very vague analogy for what’s just happened at Related Midwest’s new apartment tower in the West Loop.
New signage had been spotted, and Stephanie Lulay at DNAinfo reported yesterday, that what had been called 1035 West Van Buren through all the digging and heavy lifting shall henceforth be known as Landmark West Loop.
There’s still a little ways to go to top off the 30-story tower, as it’s reached about 25 floors in height, but still, a lot of the work was done before this new name swooped in. Though to be fair, buildings named after their addresses aren’t especially clever, and three-word street names are just clunky anyway. Besides, no one has moved into any of the 300 new, unfinished rental units yet, so it isn’t like they’ll need change-of-address cards already. So a new moniker for this one seems fitting. Landmark West Loop it is.
Landmark West Loop rises along the Eisenhower Expressway.
One Grant Park caisson work continues in the South Loop
Caisson work continues in earnest at One Grant Park in the South Loop.
Caisson work is good, dirty fun. And proving that once again is One Grant Park. But don’t take my word for it; here are a bunch of photos from last week that are each worth at least 300-400 words apiece. Thanks, as always, to Case Foundation, for putting on a show.
Quick Look: The Sinclair tops out in the Gold Coast
The Sinclair is topped out, and most of the forms have been removed from the top. We can expect the tower crane to come down very soon.
Flyboy vanishing as 1136 South Wabash rises
1136 South Wabash is obstructing Flyboy’s flight path. The CTA Roosevelt platform is still your best vantage point.
You may wish to make one last pilgrimage to see Hebru Brantley’s Flyboy in the South Loop soon, as construction on 1136 South Wabash continues its rapid upward progress. He won’t be visible much longer, as the 26-story apartment tower by CA Ventures need only grow another level or two before he’s completely hidden. Forever.
One South Halsted officially begins ripping holes in the earth
The first (?) caisson has been started at One South Halsted.
Having spent the last few days flooding the lot at Halsted and Madison with foundation equipment, Case Foundation is officially on the case for One South Halsted, having begun its first caisson Wednesday.
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- Rebaristas at work.
The Wicker Park Connection digs in
A rendering of the Wicker Park Connection from Hirsch Associates Architects.
After filing a foundation permit late in 2016, the Wicker Park Connection is burrowing into the soil on its lot at 1640 West Division Street. The 15-story project from Centrum Partners will sit right next to the nearly-completed Centrum Wicker Park, another collaboration between Centrum and Hirsch Associates Architects.
Revcon is out there drilling caissons now; Linn-Mathes is the general contractor assigned to sending the 140 apartments skyward.
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- Rendering of the Wicker Park Connection via Hirsch Associates.
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- Centrum Wicker Park, right next door, is nearing completion.
Clarkview wedges its way into Lake View
The view of the saved facade from inside Clarkview as Stalworth begins caisson work.
If you’re claustrophobic, you may need to open a window before reading on, as this is a story about tight spaces.
There is no room for error — heck, there’s no room for much of anything — in the tiny space at 3226 North Clark Street in Lake View, where Stalworth Underground has squeezed caisson equipment through the alley to begin work on a new Transit Oriented Development.
Clarkview, a design from Jonathan Splitt Architects (you remember them from the Blue Plate Catering digs) will be seven stories tall and weigh in at 24 residential units. Once home to The Alley, where the cool kids dressed, the facade of the old structure is being preserved and implemented into the new building. That means access to the lot from Clark Street isn’t possible, leaving the alley off Belmont next to the new Lakeview 3200 as the only way in and out.
Stalworth sent over some photos showing just how tight the squeeze was. I looked, and couldn’t find the smallest morsel of sawdust under any of the electrical poles. That’s allowed them to stockpile caisson equipment and get to work in the tiny, enclosed lot.
Stalworth brings in gear
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- Photo courtesy of Stalworth Underground
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- Photo courtesy of Stalworth Underground
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- Photo courtesy of Stalworth Underground
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- Photo courtesy of Stalworth Underground
Caisson Work
Wanda Vista Tower starts going 3-dimensional
Those kinds of heights are right about at my level. And you want me on that wall. You *need* me on that wall.
Tired of Wanda Vista Tower photos yet? Don’t be. Because before you know it, all the fun construction will be hundreds of feet in the air, and much harder to watch. So let’s enjoy Vista Theater being presented by McHugh Construction while it lasts.
With the gigantic mat pour done (the junior mat at the east end of the site has been poured too), the tower has started going vertical. I was especially happy to see guys hanging on a wall, four feet off the ground. I could do that; anything over six feet high would have to be someone else’s job, though.
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