Am I the only one who can't wait for this building to be imploded? (Humboldt: legal, gas)

[sfcambridge]

Originally Posted by ChiNaan

You do? If he meant something other than "Waahhh, I know nothing about architecture or anything else, but I don't like this!" then I have no idea what it was.

Lighten up.

[Drover]

Originally Posted by ChiNaan

You do? If he meant something other than "Waahhh, I know nothing about architecture or anything else, but I don't like this!" then I have no idea what it was.

You must be the life of the party wherever you go.

[ChiNaan]

Originally Posted by Drover

You must be the life of the party wherever you go.

I have no complaints. Just responding as called for, but thanks for your concern.

[rparz]

Goldberg, who died in 1997, designed Prentice with an eye to improving health care. The building is round with a central core to give better sight lines and closer care from the central nursing station.

Since I have intimate experience with both the new Rush Hospital and the UofC Pavilion, (even the new Silver Cross in New Lenox) I can sate with confidence, that this nurse station centric location is now repeated as a standard.

Originally Posted by linicx

From my POV, which has no bearing, it doesn't look or feel Chicago. I reminds me a building that would be better placed in LA or Vegas.

It was designed by Bertrand Goldberg, one of Chicago’s most important native architects, who is best known as the designer of the “corncob” towers of Marina City.

Sounds to me like the perfect location for it.

Prentice’s history is rich and the building possesses significance on multiple levels:
1. Its clover-shaped tower is a poured concrete cantilevered shell that is extremely rare
and possibly unique in the history of structural engineering. In 1975, Prentice was a
groundbreaking example of the structural possibilities of poured concrete, one of the signature building materials of late modernist architecture, and was lauded as
revolutionary at the time of its construction by critics in every camp, from The
Engineering News-Record to The Museum of Modern Art.
2. Prentice was designed using the Finite Element Method of structural analysis and an
extremely early example of three-dimensional computer modeling software developed inhouse by Goldberg and his colleagues at a time when computer drawing was still in its
infancy. In the early 1970s 3-D modeling was almost unheard of in architectural practice,
but it is now standard, making Prentice an important precursor to the practice of
architectural design as we know it today.
3. Prentice’s architect, Bertrand Goldberg, is recognized by the historical and
architectural communities as a significant figure in American modernist design. In
addition to the Marina City complex, arguably the best-recognized feature of Chicago’s
skyline, Goldberg also designed the Raymond Hilliard Homes in Chinatown, which were
placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. In 2011 both the Art Institute
of Chicago and the Arts Club of Chicago mounted major exhibitions celebrating and
expanding upon Goldberg’s place in the canon of modernist architecture. Hospital
architecture was one of Goldberg’s lifelong preoccupations, and he felt that Prentice was
the pinnacle of his achievements in this area.
4. Programmatically, Prentice was at the vanguard of a movement for increased
humanism in hospital architecture that changed the healthcare landscape in the 1970s.
The “quiet village” arrangement of patient bedrooms enabled by Prentice’s four-lobed
floor plan was a leap forward in creating the patient- and family-oriented childbirth
experience that is now the norm in American birthing hospitals, and enabled a higher
standard of care by improving proximity and sight lines between patients and nurses.

Originally Posted by sfcambridge

I love the old Cook County building. Honestly, I'd rather preserve that! Down with the prison....

Honestly, the more I read about it, the more I like the idea of repurposing that as an office space. I just wish they would do SOMETHING with it, instead of allowing it of just rot away.

[aragx6]

^Demolition by neglect is a classic strategy employed by those who want to tear something down. Wait for it to be uninhabitable and then use the very state you personally allowed it to become as your argument against preservation.

[chet everett]

..."Greek fire" -- ever notice how resturants that aren't doing well have a suspicious habit of having a smokey grease fire to "rescue" their owner? I tell ya, if you see guys name "Gus" around Prentice smelling of overly toasty bacon CALL 911!

Originally Posted by aragx6

^Demolition by neglect is a classic strategy employed by those who want to tear something down. Wait for it to be uninhabitable and then use the very state you personally allowed it to become as your argument against preservation.

[Vlajos]

Originally Posted by chet everett

..."Greek fire" -- ever notice how resturants that aren't doing well have a suspicious habit of having a smokey grease fire to "rescue" their owner? I tell ya, if you see guys name "Gus" around Prentice smelling of overly toasty bacon CALL 911!

Lol! Though we always called it greek lightnening

[rparz]

Originally Posted by aragx6

^Demolition by neglect is a classic strategy employed by those who want to tear something down. Wait for it to be uninhabitable and then use the very state you personally allowed it to become as your argument against preservation.

Daley wrote the book on this when it came to the CHA high rise buildings.

The cook county hospital has one thing going for it -- they don't make buildings like that anymore. Back when they over engineered everything and skilled craftsmen were relatively cheap. It'll take a lot for it to just 'fall down.' It may look crappy, but it's still solid.

[jonnynonos]

Motion DENIED. Bye-bye, eyesoar!

[Larry Siegel]

Maybe it should be left standing as a warning to never again let the Bertrand Goldbergs of the world, who try to impose their awful taste on a public that knows better, put their stamp on this city or any other city.