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Originally Posted by skysoar
Even so if 301 and 325 Wacker Drive twin towers had sizeable crowns atop them both, that would be awesome...
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For you and me it might seem like a no-brainer to spend another, say, $500k to add some vanity height, but most penny-pinching developers would disagree.
Luckily a few developers do care for vanity height and bragging rights. Look at Chicago's 6th and 7th tallest buildings, Franklin Center and 2 Prudential Plaza. Their roofs are only around 900 ft, probably to keep the benefit-cost ratio reasonable, but both have spires that go just high enough to reach supertall status.
At only 775', 301 & 321 S Wacker Drive are too far below the 984' mark to ever become supertalls -- they would look rather silly with 210' spires -- although it's still nice that they will be the tallest identical twin buildings in North America, assuming their heights aren't cut. NOTE: The "twins" at Harbour Plaza in Toronto are not identical.
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Originally Posted by rgarri4
From my 3D model of Chicago.
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Being right next to Sears/Willis, these "tallest identical twin buildings in North America" look like midgets. *SIGH*