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Originally Posted by MightyYoda
Also on the subject of a 1000 footer. I think it's possible when we hit 2.5 million, or the size of Pittsburgh and Denver. Even at the size, having a thousand footer would be something of a coup. Minneapolis and Seattle are still twice the size of Austin and don't have a thousand footer though both have great skylines. The only skylines in our metro range I can think of with something near 1000 feet is Cleveland and Charlotte.
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Cleveland and Charlotte don't yet have 1,000 footers, although, they both have had 1,000 foot proposals in the past. Charlotte had some crazy 1,300 foot tower proposed about 10 to 15 years ago. And Cleveland had a 1,200 foot tower proposed back in the 90s.
Charlotte's tallest right now is the Bank of America Corporate Center with 871 feet and 60 floors. Cleveland's Key Tower is 947 feet with 57 floors.
There are only 5 cities in the US with buildings over 1,000 feet tall. They are: New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Houston in that order of tallest.
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Originally Posted by migol24
It be interesting to see different colors though, like a building with a hint of maroonish or reddish glass, or some crazy color like that. I wonder if that's been done before.
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There are some. Mostly in Asia and the Middle East. Dubai certainly has some. There are a few in Mexico and South America also.
There's also this tower in Moscow, which has a copper colored glass. It's only a few years old. Here's the construction thread on it:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=106164
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Originally Posted by AusTex
Can someone with more talent than myself post 2 simple rectangles in a photo of our skyline representing 750' and 1000'? I am curious as to what that tall of a building would look like in Austin's skyline. Thanks for the Consideration.
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I haven't posted these in a long time, but they are linked in a photo album in my signature line below.
Years ago back in the late 90s I did a LEGO model of the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building. Their widths aren't quite to scale, but their heights are. And these are also some of the first photos I took of my LEGO model of downtown. Anyway, the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building models are the same scale height-wise as my Austin model is. So this is what they would look like in Austin. The Empire State Building is 1,250 feet tall to the top of the dirigible mast/spire, and 1,414 feet to the antenna. The Chrysler Building is 1,046 feet to the spire.
Anyway, this is the Chrysler Building at the corner of 3rd & Congress. I plopped the Empire State Building on the civil courthouse block. That really would be an incredible location for a supertall. The big blue tower next to the Frost Bank Tower is T. Stacy's never-to-be-built "Gumby tower", and the two tall blue towers on the left side are what Novare had been planning for Block 51 and 52, including the post office block. IBC Bank Plaza is being built where the shorter tower had been planned. That large blue tower is where the post office is, and Novare is still supposedly planning a big development there with up to 800,000 square feet.
I have updated my model since then, but it needs more work. I really need to overhaul it because the block widths aren't quite accurate just yet.