Category: High-rises
Eleven new high-rise condo projects planned for Streeterville
If you've ventured down to the southern end of Streeterville recently (the area bounded by the lake, the river, Michigan Avenue and Ontario Street) yo [...]
Life on Easy Street-erville
Centrum Properties opened the ground-floor retail component of The Fairbanks at CityFront Plaza, 240 E Illinois St, a couple of months ago, and sudden [...]
Sandburg Village Zestimates from Zillow
We just put Zillow's value Zestimates™ to the test in two Sandburg Village buildings — 1255 and 1355 N Sandburg — and it appears to [...]
Chicago buildings battle for weakest name
Flipping through Neil Harris' Chicago Apartments: A Century of Lakefront Luxury, we noticed that some buildings in the City of Big Shoulders have migh [...]
3660 Lake Shore Drive, located in the People's Republic of Lake View
Here's a rendering of the eastern elevation of American Invsco's upcoming 3660 N Lake Shore Drive, the high-rise and townhome development we told you [...]
It's a Good Friday for condo buyers in Lake View
If Thanksgiving sucked for Nicholas "Condo King" Gouletas of American Invsco, the Easter Bunny is making up for it. After years of knock-down drag-out [...]
Heritage spillover a nice legacy for Mesa
The Legacy at Millennium Park isn't scheduled to break ground until July, according to Andy Warner, of Equity Marketing Services, but the planned 73-s [...]
860 N. Lake Shore: authentic Mies for $375,000
Last week we posted on the Park Tower Condos building, one of the many Mies imitators loitering around Chicago. Don't get us wrong; there's absolutely [...]
Demolition should have been starting point for Streeterville tower
Is this the ugliest garage you've ever seen? Sadly, it probably isn't, since an ugly garage base seems to have been a prerequisite for most resident [...]
Is Edgewater's Statesman removed from lives of ordinary citizens?
Across the street from the Edgewater Beach Apartments stands --or floats -- The Statesman, at 5601 North Sheridan Road. If Chicago is the city in a g [...]
Lagrange looks forward with the leaning towers of Prairie
It does our heart good to see the name of Lucien Lagrange, architect to Chicago's wealthy (think The Park Tower, 840 N. Lake Shore Drive, The Elysian, [...]
Trump praises his penthouse, knocks Fordham Spire
Yesterday we reported that The Donald was keeping the $28 million penthouse at Trump International Hotel & Tower for his Chicago pad. The Chicago Sun- [...]
Lakeshore East's Aqua is a long drink of water
Meet Aqua, which at 82-stories, will be the tallest high-rise at the Lakeshore East development, that sits on land south of Wacker Drive and west of L [...]
Tempest in a South Loop teacup: the Burnham Pointe protest
Out for a stroll in the South Loop on Sunday afternoon, Yo stumbled across a rousing protest by a mighty throng of concerned citizens. Ok, so there we [...]
Trump to keep Chicago's highest residence to himself
It's gonna be huge. The Yo has learned that The Donald has reserved the top floor of Trump International Hotel & Tower all for himself. Chicago's pric [...]
New in Loop: casino, water park, softball field!
Mayor Richard M. Daley today announced plans to turn the highly coveted parcel across from Marshall Field's flagship store on State Street, the so-cal [...]
Vetro – light years ahead of the rest of Chicago
Vetro is an architecturally innovative new high-rise condo development destined for the South Loop, but we think developer Roszak-ADC is trying to wor [...]
El Lago: another of Edgewater's architectural Bad News Bears
One might expect to find a building named "El Lago" painted with pastels or deep marine-green -- something breezy, at any rate. But our Edgewater "El [...]
Granville Tower: Sheridan Road's scrappiest high-rise
If high-rises were dogs, Granville Tower would be the three-legged SharPei you can't help but root for. Completed in 1965, the Seymour S. Goldstein- [...]
340 on the Park construction update
The 340 0n the Park development, an ultra-luxury highrise, is slowly taking shape over at Lakeshore East. [...]