Tallest American Buildings Outside of a CBD (storage, design)
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Um..... I don't think anybody considers the John Hancock Center outside a CBD.... It's like designating either Midtown Manhattan or Downtown Manhattan as "the" CBD and saying the other is "outside the CBD."
Outside a CBD would mean being in a truly secondary skyline.
There are basically two answers, depending on how you look at it.
The tallest building in a secondary skyline/CBD is the 901 feet Williams tower in Houston. Some people don't count this since it's still inside Houston city limits and Uptown Houston is still a main CBD, even if it isn't downtown. Williams Tower:
The tallest buildings in suburban city limits are the 570 feet King and Queen Towers in Sandy Springs, an suburb of Atlanta. The King and Queen Towers:
Um..... I don't think anybody considers the John Hancock Center outside a CBD.... It's like designating either Midtown Manhattan or Downtown Manhattan as "the" CBD and saying the other is "outside the CBD."
Outside a CBD would mean being in a truly secondary skyline.
There are basically two answers, depending on how you look at it.
The tallest building in a secondary skyline/CBD is the 901 feet Williams tower in Houston. Some people don't count this since it's still inside Houston city limits and Uptown Houston is still a main CBD, even if it isn't downtown. Williams Tower:
Umm a secondary skyline? Im pretty sure that a CBD is a defined area not a skyline. A CBD is the financial district of a city. The Loop is the CBD/financial district of Chicago. The JHC is in Streeterville, which is a completely separate area from the Loop. Why the hell you think the Sears Tower and John Hancock is so far away from eachother? Downtown Chicago is not all the same *****. Streeterville isnt even a financial district, its the commercial district. So just cuz you see pictures of Downtown Chicago and consider it one big azz glob of connected blocks and buildings , consider some ***** called the CHICAGO RIVER!!!
a CBD doesn't have anything to do with financial district, it stands for central business district, John Hancock may be outside the loop but it is still in a CBD, just a different one.
If you say John Hancock is outside a CBD then you'd have to say the Freedom Tower is outside a CBD because it's not in Midtown Manhattan.
Why was the Williams Tower built outside of Downtown Houston? Do you think there will ever be another building as tall or taller built in uptown?
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