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Old Posted Sep 16, 2008, 2:22 AM
psumase psumase is offline
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Originally Posted by Patrick View Post
Nice! Reminds me of the Trump Chicago.
That's because it was designed by the same architect: Adrian Smith (while at SOM).
This building was designed for much higher loads than Trump was, though. The earthquake loads in this part of China are huge. That's why it's so tall compared to everything else in Nanjing. They never attempted to build anything that tall before.
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