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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas
I'm not really a fan of round towers unless they're being designed that way out of necessity such as along a creek or curved roadway or to avoid a capitol view corridor. Otherwise just having a round tower for the sake of having one seems like a waste of land. I guess that might seem nit picky, but a round tower obviously couldn't meet a street along a square block. So it would have poor street interaction. It would pretty much mean it would have to have a plaza. And in the new urbanism design standard, plazas equal bad. Of course I guess a building could have a podium that meets the street with a curved tower above it. That way the retail area would still meet the street leaving the tower free to be designed with whatever shape they wanted.
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A round tower can still go up higher than a rectangle. It is the FAR that determines the height on most sites not coverd by the CVC's...right? The Austonian has two curved sides and looks great. There are many round/partial round building all over the world that I like.