Glazing at Superior 110 had seemed to come to a stand-still a couple weeks ago, but I looked out the window this morning and noticed a few new panes in its top two stories.
What I hadn’t noticed until today were the building’s “racing stripes”: columns of light-blue windows on the left-hand sides of Superior 110’s eastern and western faces. They’re subtle – I really didn’t notice them until I loaded these pics onto the computer – but they’re there, and they certainly add a little vertical thrust to the tower’s design.
The 27-story building at 110 W Superior St in River North will comprise 58 units. About 60 percent of those homes were under contract in May, with the remaining stock of one- to three-bedrooms selling from the $530s to $1.46 million.
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My co-workers and I have been poking fun at that awful blue glass for weeks now. What were they thinking?!?
This is typical false advertising by developers. I’ve considered buying a 2br unit in this building. The glass at the sales center was much more subtle and lighter than actual glass we’re seeing today. Bad choice!!
I actually love it… there is so much drab beige and brown painted buildings in the area – its a breath of fresh air. I work around the corner, so walk by it often. I notice the blue looks different depending on the sky.. very striking. It kind of reminds me of the hancock tower in boston – was there last week and it popped in my head.
While everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I DO want to address sang’s comment. The sales center glass is only intended to display the shape of the building in relation to the unit, which is why the area outside of the windows (in the sales center) is painted gray. Had you asked a salesperson, they would have told you that the glass is blue and that there actually is a sklyline in the “real unit,” not a gray wall.
Sorry, I mispelled Skyline. Also, the rendering of the building clearly shows the glass as being blue, which you can see on our website.
Blue glass is fine. But this glass is neon, and looks like a bad “value engineering” exercise. This glass looks cheap.
The glass on the Hancock Building in Boston doesn’t look anything like this.
I happen to like the boldness of the blue glass. Value engineering has nothing to do with color choice. If they were looking to save money, they could’ve probably gone with a clear glass like the CMK buildings at 1620 and 1720 S. Michigan. There you will see clear glass and then you will appreciate how far a color tint goes toward hiding cluttered mess / bad window treatments inside. The CMK buildings look so bad because of their clear glass and shoddy concrete finish. 110’s blue glass is a job well done.
Stokes, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Show me a premium glass system with an awful blue tint like that. It doesn’t exist. Even a medium-grade blue Viracon with a low-E coating has much more uniform look to it. This is clearly (pun intended) a poor glass specification. It belongs in the suburbs along the expressway.
Clearly, you are dealing with old Pilkington and Viracon books when most curtain wall systems are now made overseas and the color ranges are more vast than you are used to. Your books probably have little pencil markings of your selections of U Values that you have been using for years…
And the overseas (usually Chinese) curtain wall systems are almost always cheap-looking compared to Viracon, and especially Pilkington which is top-of-the-line and quite pricey. I have personally specified cheaper Chinese glass on projects in the past to stay under budget, and nice-looking stuff can be found. But there are usually problems with cheesy-looking laminations (like the featured project here) or pillowing. Also, it can be hard to find replacement panes that are an exact match if one is broken or scratched.
I like the “popped” reference for the Hancock Ctr- hope that doesn’t happen here.
I’ve heard complaints about Chinese curtain walls too.