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April 23, 2007
I Think I Want A Twizzler
I'm what they call a futurist so my taste in design doesn't always mesh with the happenings of today. Take for example the Chicago Spire designed by Architect Santiago Calatrava. He's currently lobbying to have it built and it looks like it's getting close to approval. If approved, the 2,000 ft. building will become North America's tallest skyscraper.
Although Calatrava's design has gone thru numerous revisions to appeal to its critics, I still find it difficult to believe such an esoteric design would ever be built in America. We don't exactly have cutting edge skyscapers here anymore. That era has long passed and now belongs to the Chinese with their monolithic towers and massive sprawling glass communities. No folks, what we have here is just practice and it's making me crave a twizzler.
via Chicago Business
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Comments
I'm thinking this here is a government conspiracy to use this, in conjunction with the rotation of the earth, to drill into something. Quite possibly Mars.
Posted by: Jørgen Arnor Gårdsø Lom at April 24, 2007 3:52 AM
Chicago's horned for a Dubai screw ?
Posted by: A.J. at April 24, 2007 6:45 AM
I usually enjoy Calatrava's work, but this looks too much like a drill bit. His current work is more evocative and kinetic (although this structure does not lack a sense a movement). It just doesn't move me.
Posted by: Ern at April 24, 2007 6:48 AM
blah...evocative of flight, I meant to write.
Posted by: Ern at April 24, 2007 6:52 AM