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Old Posted Aug 20, 2009, 6:16 PM
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^There's nothing wrong with tall buildings, even "out of place" ones. It's their landscape/streetscape treatment that ultimately makes or breaks them on skyline level oppression, ironicaly. Take Sears Tower, for instance. Taller than the old WTC, it still fit in much better because it was placed on regular city grid. The Twin Towers, however, were surrounded by a 4x4 acre circle of exclusion that made sure that nothing could usurp their status. That's why I like the new design better, in that sense - back to the street grid/reation to the skyline. Though the FT is the same height/girth as the old towers were, it feels much less dominant when compared to the rest of Downtown.
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