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Originally Posted by McBane
The exterior itself is very nice but I wish it more than just 7 floors.
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The height was restricted to what it is due almost entirely to its location on the Parkway. No way it ever could have been any taller. That's why the One Logan Sq office tower has the oblique eastern facade forming a trapezoidal (vs. rectangular) footprint. While it happens to be a very nice design feature, it was actually motivated by the height limit: a corner of a 390 foot building would not have been permitted any closer to the Parkway than that angled facade.
So far as I know, the exact same rules still apply to any other building on the Parkway from Logan Sq to the Art Museum that might conceivably be planned in the future. So we may as well all get used to short buildings next to the Parkway for as long as we live. No tall buildings will ever be built on Logan Square.