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Old 07-02-2014, 09:55 AM
 
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So do you know if the Grand Hyatt is 75% glass or not? I am curious and the poster that made that claim never did back it up.
Geez look for yourself

Ground level

http://arquitectonica.com/wp-content...6.5.7pil68.jpg

Top Levels

https://www.flickr.com/photos/stall/...n/photostream/

The building as an whole

http://assets.bizjournals.com/sanant...01_web.jpg?v=1
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Old 07-02-2014, 10:01 AM
 
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I am impressed if you can tell me that Grand Hyatt is 75% glass (as a fact) from internet pictures alone. Looks like a judgement call on your behalf.
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Old 07-02-2014, 10:06 AM
 
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I am impressed if you can tell me that Grand Hyatt is 75% glass (as a fact) from internet pictures alone. Looks like a judgement call on your behalf.
Between internet pictures, staying there, and passing by hundreds of times. To make you feel better ill say the Grand Hyatt "looks" like it is 75% glass.

Do you feel better now?
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Old 07-02-2014, 10:12 AM
 
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Between internet pictures, staying there, and passing by hundreds of times. To make you feel better ill say the Grand Hyatt "looks" like it is 75% glass.

Do you feel better now?
You act as if I have never been there.

I don't feel any better or worse. I was really curious if that was true and you didn't answer the question when I asked a few days ago so I asked someone else. That is it. Thanks.

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Old 07-02-2014, 10:47 PM
 
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I do think that the Grand Hyatt is a generally attractive building. For the new one, they would do the city a huge favor if they would just squint their eyes shut, pucker their lips, and sign on the dotted line for an exact replica of one of the many recent avant garde Chicago highrises. But then that requires some actual forward thinking, and, well...
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