[adma]

Fair enough, but I'm glad that there isn't an identical FCP in Chicago.

A dunce cap for you, my dear.

 

[hawc]

No need for rudeness. I've been to meetings in the AON Center.

Gorgeous view of the park.

Not as close looking to FCP as our Mies buildings are to their Mies buildings.

If anything, the AON center always reminds me more of the WTC (same builder).

 

[someMidTowner]

A dunce cap for you, my dear.

BAHAHAHAHAH
Adma it's pretty obvious he knew about the Aon center, judging by his direct reference to it:

Fair enough, but I'm glad that there isn't an identical FCP in Chicago.

And he is the one that needs to wear a dunce cap? Interesting

 

[philofra]

From the Trump Hotel:


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[adma]

If anything, the AON center always reminds me more of the WTC (same builder).

Actually, the architect of Aon and FCP are the same: Edward Durell Stone (WTC was Minoru Yamasaki). The only reason why Aon *seems* more similar to WTC is that its windows are vertically banded like WTC--that's it, period. (And the square-tube construction is what the Stone twins and the Yamasaki twins have in common.) And of course, as we've gone over way back in this thread, Aon and FCP have the pretentious-marble-cladding-fail element in common. They're absolutely sister buildings, to the point where Wikipedia (yeah, sure, I know; the quack disclaimer, don't trust Wikipedia, etc etc) emphasizes the point.

Yeah, of course it's not "identical" in the same easy-for-a-hack-amateur-architectural-connoisseur-to-comprehend way that Mies buildings are "identical"--yet aside from the vertical-vs-horizontal-window issue (and the present granite-vs-fritted-glass-recladding issue), everything screams out "sister structures" about the two. And you can't really say that about any of Toronto's other non-Mies downtown superscrapers--the only one with a true, clear, explicit "Chicago equivalent" is FCP. Not CCN, not Scotia, not BCE, not RBP, etc etc...

 

[LowPolygon]

.

 

[ahmedyusali]

when they are going to install media screen at corner ? are they going put same one or little bit bigger screen ?

 

[hawc]

Very nice except for the double logo! Not cool.

 

[hawc]

I think they installed the TV screens on the corner on the weekend. Can someone grab a picture?

 

[Mississauga Slim]

Yeah, of course it's not "identical" in the same easy-for-a-hack-amateur-architectural-connoisseur-to-comprehend way that Mies buildings are "identical"--yet aside from the vertical-vs-horizontal-window issue (and the present granite-vs-fritted-glass-recladding issue), everything screams out "sister structures" about the two. And you can't really say that about any of Toronto's other non-Mies downtown superscrapers--the only one with a true, clear, explicit "Chicago equivalent" is FCP. Not CCN, not Scotia, not BCE, not RBP, etc etc...

 

[Atlantis]

I think they installed the TV screens on the corner on the weekend. Can someone grab a picture?

Here are a few from today.

 

[sentinel]

When you think "public TV screens"

Expectation

http://www.alexanderchen.com/Pages & Images/Times Square Parade/Time Square Parade.htm

Reality

Here are a few from today.

 

[hawc]

When you think "public TV screens" Expectation http://www.alexanderchen.com/Pages & Images/Times Square Parade/Time Square Parade.htm

Well in all fairness, this is King and Bay not Yonge and Dundas.

Is this the original screen from before the renovation just being reinstalled though or is it an upgrade? I can't remember what the original looked like.

 

[Contra]

Is this the original screen from before the renovation just being reinstalled though or is it an upgrade? I can't remember what the original looked like.

I walked by yesterday and it certainly didn't look new, so I'm going to assume it's the same curved screen as before. Wish they would at least update it to something a little more...this decade.

 

[MetroMan]

Looks like the same exact screen, reinstalled in the same spot: Google Street View