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Originally Posted by Fabb
I, too, believe that increasing the tower's width is not a good idea.
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I agree from an aesthetic standpoint. But economics-wise, this tower is just under 20k sf (140 x 140 ft.), and that's awfully small by today's standards where a 40k sf floorplate is more common on a building of this height. Plus, this little floorplate has to accomodate 80 floors worth of elevators, requiring that the lower floors be taken up by an inordinate amount of space for vertical circulation.
Honestly I was never crazy about the Piano tower, and I wouldn't mind if CBT redid it with a wider base and setbacks, so that way the portion that pierces the skyline will still be slender while the lower portion can still offer office space that's competitive with the rest of the market. How they can do that on the awkwardly-shaped site, well, I'll leave that up to the professionals.