I wouldn't call it a "beacon of design." "Tall building," yes. "Better than a lot of schlock," also yes. But by no means is this some sort of example of great design.
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"Then each time Fleetwood would be not so much overcome by remorse as bedazzled at having been shown the secret backlands of wealth, and how sooner or later it depended on some act of murder, seldom limited to once."
Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
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