Wait a minute...The project was already designed to be wide! And how are they decreasing the number of floors by 10, increasing the number of rooms by 31 and maintaining the same amount of overall space (1.4 million SF). Man, those are going to be some of the tiniest "luxury" rooms in the world!
Furthermore, the budget has seemed to increase by roughly $20 million (from $350 to $370 million).
Just as an FYI...The original site plan showed the building stretching all the way across the east-west axis...that has not changed. Also, the Statesman has always reported this building to be roughly 580' with 47 stories (obviously not including the height of the spire).
I wonder if this was a typo or misinterpretation. I hope so!
If you look at the "old" plans, level 47 was 541'8"...T.O. Topper = 571'8". The Spire extended another roughly 120 feet to 691'.
However, if you subtract 10 levels (or roughly 100'), you get into the neighborhood of the quoted 595' (including spire). If this is the case...a 120' spire on an elongated, rectangular building roughly 475' tall is going to look ridiculous!!!
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Last edited by GoldenBoot; Oct 24, 2014 at 5:57 PM.
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