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Originally Posted by philatonian
I understand the philosophy behind the tower itself and I really like it. But the spire doesn't really jive with that message. In fact, unless it's meant to represent a fiber optic cable, it actually seems counter to the message. The factories that inspired the exposed framework were pragmatic, and only loosely decorative. The spire kind of takes away from that idea.
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That's because you're thinking of it as just a decorative
spire, and not what it's intended to be: a 21st-century high-tech homage to an old factory smokestack. When CITC is viewed as a contemporary, vertical, high-tech version of the 19th- and 20th-century industrial factories that used to dominate much of the Philly landscape and economy (which is the stated intent of Foster and Comcast), the design--including its "smokestack" spire--makes more sense.
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