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I don't think thats what the OP meant. I personally would hardly qualify a 32 floor building as a skyscraper. I think the OP was referring to a building over 50 floors!!
I don't think thats what the OP meant. I personally would hardly qualify a 32 floor building as a skyscraper. I think the OP was referring to a building over 50 floors!!
I don't think thats what the OP meant. I personally would hardly qualify a 32 floor building as a skyscraper. I think the OP was referring to a building over 50 floors!!
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Originally Posted by caseya08
Thats what i think too.
Y'all need to come to meetup and pass the hat to raise the CD tower!
I've spent my fair share of time in NYC. While I enjoy the view from the Empire State Building as much as the next guy I have never really understood the fascination or the logic behind the notion that they are "good" for an area. I guess you could argue it is a sign of prosperity, but in the end it is essentially just a very tall office building with countless people working in cubicles.
The most interesting and exciting things happen at street level both here in Raleigh and Manhattan. Most of the fancy skyscrapers are empty all weekend in the major cities save a few condo buildings with fancy penthouse suites.
Sure they look cool, but it doesn't really mean too much in my opinion.
With the high cost of steel and cement these days, I imagine it would take a really good reason to build vertical to that extent here anytime soon.
The Soleil Center - RaleighSkyline.com - Raleigh, North Carolina (http://www.raleighskyline.com/soleilcenter/ - broken link)
ha! that's old news by now. the building's almost done! (im just kidding and only saying that because i obsessively check their crane-cam)
but seriously, check out Raleigh Metropolitan Area for new plans. North Raleigh Guy is right, of course, that the RBC Plaza and Soleil Center are both going up, and will be huge by Raleigh standards, but in the next 5 (not to mention the next 20) years, Raleigh will be growing like few small/medium-sized cities in the country...
Will Raleigh build a skyscraper? That would on top of the many they already have. I looked up the 'true' definition of skyscraper as I thought it was a great question. But to my low level thinking the definition states simply, " a very tall building " now that surely helped me narrow down my answer. Now we are back in the realm of the subjective, that's just perfect! Just when I thought I soared to new heights on an answer to this question I found out that I was really at ground level.
But here goes anyway. In the definitive sense Raleigh already has many 'skyscrapers' and some new ones nearly down and some awaiting the first shovel to flip the dirt of a foundation over. Even with this growth toward the sky it surely will not be a U.A.E. Dubai any time soon. I recently read that 1/2 of all the large cranes in the world were in Dubai building skyscrapers. The other reason I feel Raleigh will not enter that skyward race anytime soon is purely economics which to can be subjective, just look at the economic reports we see each day......
Because we are witnessing 'Spra-Raleigh' there is no need to build upward, outward in a 360 degree direction is better for the local/state economy. It takes a few hundred workers to build vertical but takes thousands to build horizontal. Land is also available to sprawl than to climb. NYC was referenced in the thread and that is a perfect example of why climb exceeds sprawl. They sprawled there and then fell into the Harbor, the sea, or a river and decided vertically sprawl is a dryer thing to do! So there were land limitations that help growth NYC vertically! I don't think we will see that coming to a downtown Raleigh anytime soon! But this is only my measured opinion.
Honestly, I don't think Raleigh needs a building ~50 stories just yet. The downtown skyline still needs more buildings about the size of the RBC Plaza before it can stick anything taller in there, IMHO. This is purely an opinion of aesthetics, though. I'm sure cities have thrown "skycrapers" up with few existing tall buildings, but I just don't think it will look like the city is growing properly, possibly lending a "trying too hard" appearance.
I think taller buildings will come to downtown Raleigh in time, but in the next five years the skyline needs to do some more "growing up" first. Raleigh's renaissance has really only just begun.
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