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Originally Posted by denizen467
And are we looking at references to rust belt smokestacks, another cliche that out-of-town architects immediately seize on?
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Lol, have you ever seen a smokestack? They aren't square, they aren't made of multiple vertical segments, and they don't have setbacks... In short, other than these being tall, slim, structures, they have absolutely nothing in common with smokestacks. What this does reference is the square geometry of Chicago industrial architecture, it reminds me a lot of the tops of a grain elevator with the multiple little poured in place concrete penthouses or the massing of the water tower bases that rise up out of many old school concrete loft buildings:
chicagoarchitecture.org
If these are the best criticisms of the design we are going to see, I think it's an instant classic.