Haha. Lynn Becker gave us a shoutout:
The Beitler tower is less a building than a gargatuan piece of infrastructure. Placed amidst the railyards in a city or a suburb, it would be a marvel of engineering. Placed in the heart of Chicago's downtown, it's merely an eyesore. It's a throwback to the days when cities trashed their downtowns by stuffing them beneath the dark shadows of elevated expressways. It's hard to see the general public embracing this proposal.
Even on an architecture forum like skyscraperpage.com, where there's usually unbridled enthusiasm for anything tall, discussion over the Beitler tower has been markedly cool.
http://lynnbecker.com/repeat/beitler...itlertower.htm
Unbridled enthusiasm...I enjoyed how she made us look like a bunch narrow-minded idiots and that we just accept any piss-poor design that is tall.