Posted Jan 26, 2018, 4:22 PM
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Originally Posted by ardecila
Where do you get half a dozen? There's Vista, One Chicago Square, and Tribune.
The state suggested a supertall for Thompson Center, but there's no developer to actually build it and the state has not moved forward with a sale yet. Even if a supertall ends up being proposed there, it's a whole block - no need to go slender, especially if there is an office component that needs larger floorplates, so that'll be more of a traditional supertall. Obviously there's no public proposal for the Chicago Spire site yet.
To answer your question, engineers routinely share information in conferences and published papers, so the supertalls of Billionaires' Row have paved the way for similar structures elsewhere. Techniques like tuned mass dampers, blow-through floors, ultra-high-PSI concrete, etc have now been refined and a lot of the design risk ironed out.
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That was hyperbole. 
And while not actually supertalls, One Bennet Park, One Grant Park and Wolf Point South (very close to supertall) are pretty big buildings. So there are a half dozen U/C or seriously proposed 800+ foot residential buildings in Chicago right now. When was the last time that happened?
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