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Originally Posted by KWILLSKYLINE
it would be nice to pay homage to the corn cobs, even if that wasn't his agenda.
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Paying homage to the corn cobs is not the agenda - if any homage is being paid, it is to the Willis (nee Sears) tower, with its tube massing, although the structural system is not the same. It is a slight tip of the cap, but not a full homage.
Personally, I hate all these "homages" and "tips of the cap" to other buildings; that is a post-modern practice that, rather than allowing a building to be what it needs to be, feels this need to try to be in the same club as the buildings they are paying homage to. It's like the kid in school who is unsure of himself, and tries to suck up to the kid he admires by wearing the same cool clothes and saying to him "Hey look, we're wearing the same clothes! We're twinsies!" Do you think the kid he admires cares? Do you think he admires the kid in return? No, it's just a pathetic attempt to be cool by association.
That's not to say that architects and engineers need to reinvent the wheel with every building - if a building needs the same solution as the Sears building, then do it - just don't do it as an homage, do it as a genuine solution to the problem.