Category: High-rises
Sheep and goats in the sky, oh my!
Antony Wood presents an overview of the basics of tall buildings, trends, drivers, challenges – and whimsical possibilies.
In the video, Wood, exec [...]
Superior 110's garage is blue too
Last week, Joe's Printers Corner post sparked a pretty lively discussion on the topic of garage design. Most readers deemed Printers Corner's parking [...]
757 Orleans @ Chicago's sales center moving in
Yesterday I paid a visit to the sales trailer outside 757 Orleans @ Chicago to find out whether the building's new models were still on track to ope [...]
Construction checkup: 235 Van Buren
CMK Companies' 235 Van Buren has gained five more floors and a lot more glass in the past month. Crews have reached the 19th residential level of t [...]
Development, the Chicago way
We're embedding the video from NBC Channel 5 in case you missed it earlier this week. It's a classic Chicago story, with the Emerald condos.and Patt [...]
One more look inside One Museum Park
This three-bedroom unit on One Museum Park's 45th floor is located on the same corner as the 23rd-floor three-bedroom I wrote about earlier this wee [...]
One Museum Park's lounges and pools
The fifth floor of The Enterprise Companies' One Museum Park, located at 1211 S Prairie Ave, is home to several of the tower's common amenities, su [...]
With paint and balconies, R+D659 looks svelte
While shooting video in the West Loop on Friday, I stopped by R+D659, Mesirow Financial Real Estate's 237-unit condo development at 659 W Randolph St [...]
With bank backing, Pure moves forward
When news broke in September that Salman Ibrahim, principal of Sunrise Equities, skipped town, a big question mark was hung atop Pure, the 67-unit con [...]
We like to watch: The views from One Museum Park's 23rd floor
I'm sure developers would prefer we publish the kinds of vistas found inside their elaborately designed promotional packets - images of clear blue [...]
An underwater view of Aqua
While witnessing the spire installation on the Trump International Hotel & Tower on Saturday, I had to keep my feet moving to stay warm, so I marc [...]
Looking down on Michigan Avenue Tower II
I still want to take a full-blown tour of Michigan Avenue Tower II, but it's hard to do so when its sales staff still hasn't received the proper fur [...]
Sales Center Sundays: Inside a three-bedroom at One Museum Park
I made my way to Museum Park on Sunday afternoon in hopes of landing a grand tour of its flagship building: One Museum Park's eastern tower, located [...]
Spire installation at the Trump Tower
A few months ago, when construction on the Trump International Hotel and Tower reached about 75 or 80 stories, it became visible from the living room [...]
Behold the wonder that is the live Spire-cam
This is the view at noon today from the Chicago Spire Webcam that can be found at Spireowners.com, a site run by @properties agent Victoria Carton. It [...]
Huron, we hardly knew ye
Fans of the brownstones at Huron and State can breathe easier now. We're hearing that State & Huron LLC, which had hoped to build the 28-story Hur [...]
Construction almost finished on 757 Orleans @ Chicago, but sales have a long way to go
About a month ago, buyers started moving into 757 Orleans @ Chicago, The Gammonley Group's 22-story high-rise at 757 N Orleans St in River North, but [...]
Closings at R+D659 to begin this week
R+D659, Mesirow Financial Real Estate's 15-story high-rise in the West Loop (or the "New West Loop" or "New Loop," according to some recent ads) is se [...]
Mondial's model to open next month
Construction is close to wrapping on Mondial, CITTA Development's 15-story high-rise at 900 W Huron St in River West. The above photo was taken about [...]
Library Tower's condos, furnished and bare
On Thursday I met up with Library Tower sales manager Andrew Baasen, and together we took a walk through a number of finished units on the tower's s [...]