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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright
Well all squares and rectangles are parallelograms so virtually all buildings in Chicago are lol. The word we are looking for here is a rhombus, there are few rhomboid buildings out there.
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People use parallelogram and rhombus (all sides equal - Hancock in Boston isn't a rhombus by my observation) precisely because they can't describe it as a square or rectangle with 90 degree angles. Its use is just functional.