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Originally Posted by LaSalle.St.Station
No, lets not use the existing foundation for one grand massing tower, Instead lets split the site and add visual clutter to the lakefront. Let this die on the vine.
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Perfectly illustrating the difference between those who talk about tall buildings
and those who actually build tall buildings.
Buildings become less efficient the higher you go—geometrically so. There's the amount of floorspace required for elevators and exit stairs, the strength of the concrete, the time needed for construction. That's why the Spire went through three iterations, each trying to hang more units on the same set of elevator shafts.
Do you really think Related and SOM didn't run the numbers? Do you think they just picked the floor counts based on the CEO and his daughter's ages?