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The skies are cloudy now, but it was a great morning to get up into Aqua. Leila Zammatta, vice president of sales for Magellan Development, and Todd Wendell, project manager for Loewenberg Architects, took me on a tour of Aqua’s terrace and amenities, located on the tower’s second and third floors, but the real treat was our trip to the 58th floor (the first of the tower’s 23 condo-only floors), where we took in the views from the wrap-around balconies of the southeast- and northwest-corner units.
Sixteen of Aqua’s 264 condos are still available, Zammatta says. The eight homes currently listed on Magellan’s Web site range from a one-bedroom priced in the $470s to a three-bedroom priced at $1.24 million. Apartment tenants started moving into Aqua’s apartments in mid-May; the tower’s first condos will be ready for occupancy in October.
Check back later this week for more video and pictures from Aqua’s amenity levels and apartments, and a peek inside Magellan’s Parkhomes at Lakeshore East.
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Does anyone else think the really value engineered the heck out of the balcony railing system?! Probalby a $150M+ building and they put black picket railings on it…Maybe it was as designed by Jeanne Gang to help them ‘fade away into the background’ and keep emphasis on the wavy facade but I think they’re just about the cheapest railings in all of Chicago.
Ugghhh I would kill for that view.
At first I thought this was going to be an awesome building; as it went up, I thought the actual installation might meet expectations.
I generally like the building (but thought it could have been built in a more prominant, less obstructed location). After seeing it up close, for all the hype, this is easily the most overrated building in a long time.
I am not ‘hating on it’, but after taking a lookin person at the lower floor decking, street facade, and commercial space, what in the heck were they thinking? For all the merit and good will intended in the design of the upper floors, the ground floor design and quality is unbelievably bad. There is zero relation to the building design & concept, nor the surrounding buildings or plazas. It’s as if they cut and paste 1212 Michigan at the base.
I’m going to agree with Stokes: those balconies are terrifying. 58 floors up and nothing but a totally minimal rail preventing your death. I’m amazed at how little there is supporting that. They don’t even appear to be anchored to the buildings sides in any way.
Utterly unprofessional in my opinion and a disaster waiting to happen. Frankly, I’m very surprised that balconies are even allowed at a height like that.
Michael,
I had a friend whose cat leapt at a pigeon and fell to his death from the 40th floor of Marina City. Another friend leapt to his death from the 19th floor of his condo.
Other than that, I know of no harm coming to anyone from a balcony at great height.
You can be certain that the engineers have done their job well on these balconies.
I’m scared of heights, so, I’ll vote “present”.
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