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Originally Posted by Plokoon11
1145' allows to to knock over Aon Center in Chicago, which is at 1135'. Great news!
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Not singling you out Plokoon - I know you are not really wound up in this stuff, but others are . . .
But I'm one of those purists who disregards silly things like pinnacles as cheating. Placed next to CITC, John Hancock and Aon are "taller" in everyway but in the arbitrary technical terms of the Intl Skyscraper Council or whatever that silly organization is called. Any lay person comparing JH or Aon to CITC would agree the former are taller, that ridiculous Council be damned.
But if an extra floor pushes the mechanical enclosure over 1000' from an incredibly annoying 995', that works for me. We can legitimately claim to have a 1000'+ building in this city.
But let's save ourselves from enbarrassing ourselves in front of the Chicagoans: unless the mechanical structure exceeds Hancock or Aon, those buildings simply beat CITC. Give Chicago its due. Its 70s behemoths still dominate North America.
And Phillyheads who argue otherwise just come across as insecure in that Philly kind of way, so it's just better to accept reality.