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Originally Posted by McBane
...the city should demand something that doesn't wall off Center City from the river the way that 2400 Chestnut does...
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This.
If I'm not mistaken, height limits have been set along the Delaware River waterfront because "we don't want to wall off the city from its waterfront."
But tall buildings don't wall off the city from its waterfronts; wide-ass, wall-like buildings do.
The very least the developer could do is visually break up the building's length into smaller sections, varying the facade and roofline by several stories here and there.
But yeah, as others have mentioned, I'd rather see some innovative (dare we ask for avant-garde?) architecture here, especially if the property is to be limited to around 22 floors.