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March 17, 2006

Fordham Spire

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Flea-fav Santiago Calatrava may have made an addition to the Chicago skyline by 2010. Fresh from news the Sumida Tower has a building site the Flea now learns Chicago has granted planning permission for the Fordham Spire, to be the tallest building* in the United States. At 610m (2001 feet) it would also be the tallest structure in the world depending on which Sumida Tower figure is to be believed. By contrast the iconic Sears Tower is 442m tall.

Donald Trump expresses his reservations. Fordham's chairman, Chris Carley has an excellent rejoinder.

"In this climate I would not want to build that building," Trump said last year when the project was first announced. "Nor would I want to live in that building. ... Any bank that would put up money to build a building like that would be insane," he added.

But Fordham's Carley wasn't impressed, noting Trump's planned tower, at 415 metres, is itself no wilting lily. "I wonder where the insanity limit is," Carley wondered last summer, adding "It must be just over" 415 metres.

Newspeak Update: I just found an NBC piece (with video) that suggests to me the Donald's real problem is the relative shrinkage of his own Chicago tower project.

*Buildings are occupied while towers or structures are not.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at March 17, 2006 08:23 AM

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