Thinking aloud about Wolf Point; let’s hear your ideas, too

Judging from the emails and phone calls I’m getting, readers aren’t satisfied with the Kennedy-Hines-Pelli for Wolf Point, either. If there are better ideas out there, this is the place to express them.  

Here are some thoughts I’ve had in the wake of Sunday’s critique: 

–Would the two office towers be better if they were more fluid than faceted. I suppose that’s not possible given the office building brief, but a lobed tower (like Lake Point Tower) might read better from a variety of angles. The prow of the south tower looks good from the south looking north but its faceted elevation is awfully bulky when seen from east to west, especially when combined with the east tower.

–Would this trio of towers be better off with related, but different designs, like Kohn Pedersen Fox’s 333 West Wacker and its two bookends across the river? Perhaps that would help the new Wolf Point development to fit more seamlessly into the parade of skyscrapers on the river’s north bank.

–Is there a better site plan for Wolf Point than the one that Pelli has proposed? I’ve heard complaints from readers, echoing views expressed by last week’s public hearing, that the prow of the south tower would cramp the public space along the riverfront. In short, is there a way to give this commercial development a more civic character befitting its extraordinary site?