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Newest Review: ... know why, and its understandable. The Chicago Tribune last year reported how space in Sears Tower was proving difficult to lease, two years after 9/11. In spite of this, Sears Tower remains the highest building in North America. At 30 years old, it can not contest with the brave designs of Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai or Taipei 101 in Taiwan, but in the context of a great American city, the Sears Tower is awesome. Beautiful, sheer, and tall, Sears suits Chicago, and Chicago suits Sears. Transplant one of the Asian super-towers to Chicago and Sears would still win. NYC’s World Trade Center was ambitious for the time. Nobody dared build to 11... more

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Sears Tower: Lies, damn lies and skyscraper claims (1492 words)
by - written on 05/11/04 (Very useful, 1084 readings)
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“There are lies, damn lies and statistics” Churchill was accredited with this quote. You don’t have to look hard to find examples of how governments, newspaper editors, companies and others look to statistics to get their message across, whilst covering up more salient and embarrassing failures. Even I do it. When the boss wants some information, I’ll tell him what he wants to hear, and do so without lying or compromising my integrity. So if this year’s performance is not up on last year, I’ll tell him instead about how we’re outperforming competitors! I’m not a Skyscraper buff, but over the years I have walked under ... Read the complete review