It’s often difficult to envision a completed building when looking at a cement skeleton, and New West Realty‘s 1555 Wabash in the South Loop is no different. With the addition of some glass on the lower residential floors I was hoping to get a better idea of how this building will turn out, but I’m still having a tough time reconciling this structure with the glass box seen in the rendering.
I’m always impressed with artists’ ability to take a little creative license and sneak the Sears Tower into renderings where it doesn’t belong, but this one (below) is particularly egregious. In this rendering it looks like the Sears is east of Wabash – a full seven blocks from where it stands at 233 S Wacker St. It looks like it could be on Michigan Avenue, and the AT&T Building is even further east.
I understand the iconic status of the Sears and its importance to the Chicago skyline, but to anyone familiar with the city, this rendering could give the impression that 1555 Wabash is more than a half mile from where it’s actually located.
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