Roszak/ADC
A Building All Aglow
The developer Thomas Roszak offers an illuminating alternative to those bland parking garages
Chicago Magazine
02/01/2006
Dennis Rodkin |
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The architect and developer Thomas Roszak has devised an illuminating alternative for those boxy parking garages that drably support most of the new condo towers around town. On his new Vetro, slated to rise on empty land at South Wells and West Harrison streets, the parking floors will double as a glowing, lighted base for the sleek modern tower above.
"We wanted to dress it up a little, give it some jazz," Roszak says of the seven-story base, whose top five levels will be wrapped in opaque glass and lit from within. It's a fitting footing for a building whose exterior will be slim and glassy, and whose interiors feature open-space floor plans and frosted-glass sliding doors. The smallest units in the 31-story Vetro-523-square-foot efficiencies (or open-plan one-bedrooms)-start at $172,900. The largest units-2,067-square-foot penthouses with two bedrooms, a den, and two balconies-cost $958,900. Construction is scheduled to begin this spring, and residents should begin moving into their new homes in fall 2007.
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