洛杉矶的CIM集团和Chicago’s Golub & Co. unveiled plans last month to redevelop Chicago’s neo-gothic Tribune Tower and the land surrounding it to include an adjacent 1,422-ft-tall structure that, if built, would become the city’s second tallest buildng behind Willis Tower at 1,450 ft. The soon-to-be-former home of the Chicago Tribune, a landmarked building built in 1923, would be converted to 165 residential units and new retail space. The entire development is projected to cost $1 billion and start construction in 2019.
设计合作伙伴Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture的设计合作伙伴Gordon Gill表示，新塔的反射玻璃旨在看起来与Tribune Tower不同，而其垂直的铜鳍在青铜色的金属中覆盖，将补充历史悠久的塔的印第安纳州石灰岩外墙。新塔计划容纳200间客房的豪华酒店，439套租赁公寓，125个公寓和停车位。
The renovation of Tribune Tower was designed by Chicago’s Solomon Cordwell Buenz in collaboration with historic preservation consultant Vinci Hamp Architects. While it would leave the Chicago landmark’s exterior intact, other buildings in the complex—including structures that once housed the paper’s printing plant as well as radio and TV studios for cable network and radio broadcaster WGN—would see major modifications including a four-story addition to the broadcast building.
Demolition of the interior spaces of Tribune Tower has already begun and the newspaper’s staff is set to move to nearby Prudential Plaza in two months. However, the Stones of the World taken by Tribune correspondents from famous buildings around the world, would mostly stay embedded in the building’s exterior façade. Some stones would be moved to other locations onsite while the building’s landmarked lobby would stay and continue to be open to the public.
对该项目的最大斗争可能是芝加哥论坛报的装饰所发生的事情。CIM Group和Golub已提起诉讼，以防止报纸离开时将“芝加哥论坛报”的字母从建筑物的前部拼写。
“We are doing everything we can to keep the sign. Like the Stones of the World, we feel it’s part of the fabric of the building,” explained Lee Golub , Partner and EVP at Golub & Co. “The tenant claims it’s intellectual property. We believe it’s real estate that we lawfully acquired.”
Developers are still seeking city approval, which would require a zoning change.
