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Old Posted Oct 28, 2020, 5:17 PM
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Originally Posted by skysoar View Post
Even so if 301 and 325 Wacker Drive twin towers had sizeable crowns atop them both, that would be awesome...
For you and me it might seem like a no-brainer to spend another, say, $500k to add some vanity height, but most penny-pinching developers would disagree.

Luckily a few developers do care for vanity height and bragging rights. Look at Chicago's 6th and 7th tallest buildings, Franklin Center and 2 Prudential Plaza. Their roofs are only around 900 ft, probably to keep the benefit-cost ratio reasonable, but both have spires that go just high enough to reach supertall status.

At only 775', 301 & 321 S Wacker Drive are too far below the 984' mark to ever become supertalls -- they would look rather silly with 210' spires -- although it's still nice that they will be the tallest identical twin buildings in North America, assuming their heights aren't cut. NOTE: The "twins" at Harbour Plaza in Toronto are not identical.

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Originally Posted by rgarri4 View Post
From my 3D model of Chicago.
Being right next to Sears/Willis, these "tallest identical twin buildings in North America" look like midgets. *SIGH*
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