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glasscastle - August 13, 2005 @ 10:14 am · Serious News
from Assoc/ Press
 – The architect’s concept is breathtaking: a spiraling, 115-story<br />
tower that would pierce the sky along Chicago’s lakefront and grab the<br />
title of the nation’s tallest building. Off the drawing board, though,<br />
history shows that such plans often fail to live up to their record-breaking<br />
aspirations.</p>
<p> Over the past 20 years, dozens of high-rise proposals such as the new Fordham<br />
Spire in Chicago have been billed as the world’s or nation’s next tallest<br />
building. But most of the projects have ended up either scaled down or<br />
scrapped before the shovels even hit the dirt.</p>
<p> "Since 1950, there’s only been a handful of world’s tallest buildings<br />
and those that have been built have ruled for a long time," said Lee<br />
Bey, a former architecture critic who is writing a book about unbuilt skyscrapers. "These<br />
things are obviously very complicated to build and complicated to finance."</p>
<p> To get high-rise projects off the ground, developers have to clear financial,<br />
regulatory and political hurdles while alleviating high-rise security concerns<br />
that surfaced after the Sept. 11 attacks.</p>
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