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When I introduced the three Greenline developments on the 6600 block of South Ingleside Avenue in December, the first two — The Myers and The Hathaway — were pretty easy to picture, but it was difficult to imagine The Baldwin’s bumble-bee yellow street presence. Now, looking at the building under construction at at 6625 S Ingleside Ave alongside the rendering though, it’s tough to tell them apart.
When I met with developer Benjamin Van Horn on Tuesday, he seemed particularly excited about the design of The Baldwin, which is still under construction. All three two-bedroom / two-bath homes in the development have 1,050 square feet of floor space, and they’re priced from the $150s to the $180s.
Van Horn says that all three of his Ingleside properties have high-efficiency furnaces and water heaters and a high-grade soy foam insulation. As with The Myers and The Hathaway, buyers of these three homes will receive a $20,000 gift from the city of Chicago to be spent toward down payments and closing costs.
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This could possibly be one of the ugliest buildings I’ve seen. okay, maybe not THE ugliest, but it’s up there.
When i first saw the rendering i thought it was going to be some sort of modular panel, not mustard colored brick.
I think it’s actually kind of cool looking, and worlds better than the standard “faux-vintage” bullshit developers normally go for. I like that the actual yellow is a little more muted than the rendering – there are old brick buildings with yellow brick not all that far from the color used here.
I don’t think it’s as bad as Cg, and, as Sheridan Parker said, it’s nowhere near the cheap historicism so pervasive among small scale residential development, but the final product is regrettably very different from the rendering.
It looks like they totally changed course when it came to the palette and the materials. Moreover, they neglected to clad the sides of the building in the same material as the facade. Were it wider and more snugly positioned between its neighbors, I could understand; but, as the picture indicates, there’s ample room and it just looks cheaply finished.
Too bad, really. I was excited about the design.
Not cladding the sides with the same block is what ties it in with the typical Chicago apartment building, stone or pressed brick front, common brick sides and rear. I wish the zoning code would change, so that people built to the lot lines at the front, gives a better streetscape and more space inside too.
If they nailed the yellow panel in the rendering, it would have been cool. Now, it looks like 1970s 4+1 old.
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