by architect Jeanne Gang, of Chicago. She's great. What I love other than how amazing this building looks, is that the forms on the facade that create the residential decks were designed using wind modeling in order to lessen the effect of high Chicago winds on the facade. The design allowed the structural engineers to be able to forego the usually required mass-dampening system.
Form, function, ah, Louis Sullivan would be proud....
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Really great New Yorker article about this building a while back. I'll look for the hard copy (although I may have already recycled it) to give you:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/skyline/2010/02/01/100201crsk_skyline_goldberger
Awesome. It's such a pretty building - I got to see it in person (from the outside anyways) when I was in Chicago.
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