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 Possibly neutralize the lakefront issue while adding the advantage of better connecting the South Loop to the lakefront. Take the hill-like shape of the proposed museum and make it a real hill over the railroad tracks west of Lake Shore Drive at 18th St., incorporating the bikepath overpass and the Metra station into the design. Residents gain park acreage on top of the museum and the museum still is tied to the museum campus and has a lakefront view. Mr.Lucas….get your architect working on this!

@STARCHY: All sorts of well-respected American museums – and LACMA, too – have or will soon have these boring Renzo Piano buildings that all look the same and that all look dull as dishwater: New York’s Whitney Museum, Atlanta’s High Museum, Fort Worth’s Kimbell Museum, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. It must be because Piano can provides a big starchitect name, and he produces easy-to-use, relatively simplistic boxes that are easy to maintain that are built on-time and on-budget. Of course, take away the starchitect glamour, and the same could be said about your average Wal-Mart.

Tearing this building down is an incredibly stupid idea. Clearly, this museum is being run by the wrong person. He should step aside, and let someone else run what is there, keep the history, and find other buildings nearby, if they want more space. Look at what the Tenement Museum has done, and it started out as just one building. Heck, sell this museum to them, since they know better how to run such a place. There are far better ways for this museum to survive. Demolition is NOT the answer.

Yes, it was. Sharif El-Gamal is developing a three-story Islamic museum and public plaza adjacent to this site, but it will not be a mosque.

"The site, which extends from 43 to 51 Park Place, will open in 2019 with 50 apartments at 45 Park Place and a much smaller, three-story Islamic museum and public plaza, designed by Jean Nouvel, but no mosque, at 49-51 Park Place."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/realestate/muslim-museum-world-trade-center.html

It didn’t uphold any lakefront precedent. The lakefront restrictions apply to Grant Park not museum campus. The Friends of the Park had a harassing lawsuit that would stall the building of the project and as a result, Lucas went elsewhere.

The fact that you don’t like the architecture doesn’t matter. A lot of people hated the Picasso in Daley Plaza etc. I’m happy people experiment and create new architecture rather than rehashing the same old stuff.

FrankMc</a>: <a href='#comment-1705187'>FrankMc:Build something that doesn’t overwhelm the site or go to Reese and let Gang design a bridge over the tracks and the drive that truly connects/integrates the museum to the lakefront park – I bet she could do that – which should make Lucas happy.

@somechicagoguy: "Actually, Lucas’ terms pretty much state that he wanted a location next to the water …" Well, I didn’t know that. It means my idea to put the museum IN the lake would have been a slam dunk (no pun intended).

Seriously, I didn’t know there were any stipulations made public re the location. Could you provide a link?

This is the best way to put it. Do you think Rahm wouldn’t have gave away public lakefront land for an art museum with illustrations by Edgar Degas and Winslow Homer?

All that other stuff can go in an exhibit in the middle of Six Flags. The pop culture art exhibits and primarily the Star Wars exhibits are what people are buying into. Lucas had trouble finding landing spots for this for a reason.

@matdavone:

Im far from the biggest Lucas fan but this is a pretty dumb thing to say. Was Mies "honoring the history and architectural aesthetic of the city" when he plopped austere glass and steel boxes all over a city filled with gotchic, neo-classical, and industrial buildings?

The city’s aesthetic isnt static, or a museum piece. It flows to reflect its time.

You are overlooking a small matter of constitutional right to access to courts.

The City and Lucas tried to have the lawsuit dismissed. The court found enough evidence and legal support to allow the matter to continue.

Hey, I hope the museum gets made. But this railing against the right of someone who thinks differently having access to courts sounds like something you would expect to hear in Iran or Syria, not the United States. Pretty sad.