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Originally Posted by JManc
The Sears maybe a good 100' shorter but it still a monster and dwarfs this new building.
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Actually I think there's some eye trickery at play here based on the Sears Tower design, which fools the eye into thinking it is bigger than it actually is (probably the intention of the design).
From about 260 meters to the roof, both building are roughly the same girth. Then from about the 200 to 260 meter mark on the Sears Tower side...that's about the same girth as the Nordstrom from 0 to 140 meters.
So that means that the Nordstrom is roughly the same girth (maybe a bit thinner) from 0 to 140 meters, and from 260 to 470 meters. That's 350 meters total. This means the Sears Tower is roughly only "thicker" for around 120 Meters of the building, if I'm not mistaken. Hope that wasn't too confusing.