Signature Tower!
William Williams’ article in the City Paper today points out that several nationwide urban design forums are abuzz with news of the new Signature Tower announcement.
Apparently, the 1,000+ foot tower’s mixed hotel and residential use might even classify it as the tallest residential building in the U.S.
Personally, I think it will add tremendous character to the skyline.
The urban planning community has been buzzing about Signature Tower since Tony Giarrartana introduced the plans last August. Urbanplanet.org (to which Williams refers in the City Paper piece) has likewise been a flurry of discussion for as many months. The picture posted above comes from a February discussion thread on Urbanplanet.org. The continuing publicity helps the project, but William Williams seems to be just catching up to the news.
Here are some other mock-ups of the Tower at the Giarratana website.
I find this exciting but at the time time I’m a little nostalgic for the days when the L&C Tower was the tallest building.
According to a commenter connected with SigTower, the skyscraper has a new design that has not gone public yet.
We need to coin a nickname for it. How about “SigTow” or as above, “SigTower”?
Sorry for multiple posts. But this morning’s Tennessean has an article saying that Giarratana is in talks with a luxury “boutique” hotel corporation to lure them to some of the bottom floors (above the retail space). Also, he is adding 10 more stories to the original plan to make the behemoth 1,047 feet.
The Tennessean seems much more ahead of the curve on this development than the City Paper’s William Williams.
I don’t know that “character” is a word I’d use for this building. “Height,” maybe. But really, this is like, the pinnacle of architecture circa 1975. Blech.
Hey, it’s prettier than the Sears Tower. Through all my years in Chicago, I always marveled at how ugly that bizarre thing is.