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Design of proposed Inner Harbor skyscraper unveiled, praised

Questar Properties Inc. unveiled plans on Thursday for a posh 43-floor residential tower across from the Inner Harbor, a project the developer predicts will become an icon for downtown Baltimore.

The 485-foot, 372-unit apartment building would tower above the neighboring Harbor Court hotel and condominium complex and would become the city’s fourth-tallest building. San Francisco-based architecture firm Solomon Cordwell Buenz designed a building that reflects the maritime history of the Inner Harbor, with a sail-like structure being placed at the top. Much of the building, at 414 Light St., will be encased in blue glass meant to evoke the Inner Harbor waters.

The building would sit on the site of a former McCormick & Co. Inc. manufacturing plant, a long-vacant site now home to a surface parking lot.

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