You remember the hell Hell , do n’t you ? That gargantuan abandon hole punch in the Chicago landscape painting ? Here ’s a plan to make that jam a lot less holey .
The 110 - metrical foot broad , 76 - groundwork deep pickle was dug with the best intention . It was supposed to domiciliate the magniloquent tower in the Western Hemisphere , Santiago Calatrava ’s Chicago Spire . But the development succumbed to the recession and the void never got filled . It just model there , mouth agape love . For almost 10 years .
There were some great ideas for what to do with the sin pit , like work it into the world ’s deepest / scariest swimming pool , but eventually the metropolis justplanted more trees around it and tried to block it ever happened .
Until now ! The architecture business firm Gensler has proposed abrand - new takeon the Chicago Spire . No , it ’s not really a spire , it ’s more like an ironing board prop up up over the city . But those straddle limb of the Gateway Tower , as Gensler calls it , would also serve as a tourist attraction , connecting to the metropolis ’s exist Riverwalk and shuttling people directly up to a sky deck that ’s 2,000 foot in the tune . And as Genslerexplains to Jay Koziarz at Curbed Chicago , this variety of tower serve the public better than the luxury condominium planned for the trap , and it get money for the city ( and yes , it has to be that tall or else hoi polloi wo n’t go up in it ) .
As for the role of the hole , it ’s not solely light . Perhaps the architects need all that profoundness to bear the weight of the entire 2,000 metrical unit construction . Maybe visitor who board the especial elevator to the sky deck will be souse deep into the fix first before they ’re then rocket up the supertall , like an architectural drop zone drive .
One thing is for certain . Anything is better than a hell pit .
[ Curbed Chicago ]
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