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Old Posted Aug 20, 2008, 11:00 PM
strickn strickn is offline
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As for axes, j:

very rarely does one see a skyscraper with three facades instead of 1,2,4,6, or 8. City of Faith in Tulsa and US Steel in Pittsburgh, both from the 1970s, are the last (no, Commerzbank in Frankfurt, nevermind) and possibly first time it was done this effectively.

I do get leery of boasting in cool urban things, because once you grant that exceptional things are desirable and carry some notable superiority with them, then we've accepted and endorsed a certain amount of the principle of viewing New York, Chicago, SF and Boston as justified role models, which is exactly what they would like to be in charge of the rest of the country acknowledging. That would be a mistake.