Skyscrapers as tall as 70 stories are part of a developer’s ambitious plan to bring 23,000 jobs and 5,000 homes to the Chicago River on the city’s North Side.
Those are among new details that Chicago developer Sterling Bay unveiled Wednesday night during the long-anticipated first public meeting for its planned Lincoln Yards project, a more-than-$5 billion development planned for at least 70 acres along the river between Lincoln Park and Bucktown [...].
— Chicago Tribune
The master plan was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and CBT Architects with James Corner Field Operations as the landscape design contributor.
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this looks exactly like what you’d expect when talented landscape designer joins forces with a bland acronym firm on a ___ Yards post industrial mega-development underwritten by clueless big banks and corrupt politicians
Imagine a megadevelopment that began around architecture and not around nihilistic number pushers and spreadsheet urbanists. This mcurbanist age is gonna leave us with little cultural legacy to build on
Noooooooooooooo! Not another one! Sure sign a recession is right around the (James) corner.
Just like Chicago, taking the worst of Mies and giving some twists and giggles. All that money, for what?
Thousands of jobs. That's a lot of Starbucks and Urban Outfitters.
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