Austin representin' ... and refreshing to see locales other than Chi-Town in the thread. From scraper-geek pov, I really don't get the enormous 'Chicago superior to NYC' fanboy movement. Sure it has the Willis/Sears 400meter+ and other supertalls but overall the tall built-form is barely a slice of Manhattan. And it drops like a stone a couple of kilometers west of the lake.
And there's nothing like ESB, Chrysler, Woolworth etc. on the ('scraper) architectural front.
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Pancake City - home to river valleys, the most extensive urban ravine system in the world, 600km of trails and a 130 metre climb to North York. Just add maple syrup.
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