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Old Posted Oct 14, 2012, 6:49 PM
Phat Stanley Phat Stanley is offline
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Well that's true in one respect, but here's some other thoughts:

Sometimes fantastic towers need to stand apart. Would Taipei 101 look as amazing as it does if they had built it across the river, over by the stadium with all the highrises? Probably not... it stands over there in Xinyi all by itself so that people can marvel at it from any side, any angle.

China is a big place... by land mass alone, it's slightly larger than the US. They already have their NYC and Chicago in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Putting this in one of those would just result in it getting lost and becoming an also-ran. So it's time to give another city a chance. Skylines have to start somewhere.

Now... could they have put it in Tianjin, somewhere near but not to close to Goldin Finance? Probably. Tianjin has a budding collection of talls and supers going on... so it definitely could have helped that out. But hey... were talking the Chinese here... who the hell knows what they've got planned!
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