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Originally Posted by Crawford
Yup. Extell won't like being topped. I think they'll have a "response" in due time.
Barnett wants to be the skyline king of Midtown.
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Awful design! Anyone can design that junk! Concerning topping rights, sounds eerily like the early 30's when the Chrysler and ESB were going up.
This is from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Building
"Chrysler realized that his tower's height would exceed the Empire State Building's as well, having ordered Van Alen to change the Chrysler's original roof from a stubby Romanesque dome to the narrow steel spire. However, the Empire State's developer John J. Raskob reviewed the plans and realized that he could add five more floors and a spire of his own to his 80-story building, and subsequently acquired the nearby plots needed to support that building's height extension. Two days later, the Empire State Building's co-developer, former Governor Al Smith, announced the updated plans for that skyscraper, with an observation deck on the 86th-floor roof at a height of 1,050 feet (320 m), higher than the Chrysler's 71st-floor observation deck."