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Old 12-24-2010, 06:15 PM
 
Location: Dallas,Texas
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The praetorian building is 190 feet.
The adolphushotel is 270 ft to the ceiling.
The 806 Main building is 302 feet. so after the capital lofts remove praetorian, magnolia and Adolphus and add 806 main.

Lomas and Nettleton 1904-1908 Houston
Capital Lofts- 1908-1910-Houston
806 Main- 1910-1915- Houston
Texaco Building-1915-1923 Houston
Niels Esperson -1927-1929- Houston
JP Morgan Chase 1929- 1959 Houston
SouthLand Center - 1959- 1963-Dallas
Exxon Building- 1963-1971 Houston
One Shell Plaza- 1971- 1980 Houston
Enterprise Plaza 1980-1982 Houston
Chase Tower 1982 present- Houston
Ok, let's get back on topic. I am tired of this.
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Old 12-24-2010, 06:27 PM
 
Location: Up on the moon laughing down on you
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Ok, let's get back on topic. I am tired of this.
I told you that ages ago. Dallas don't beat Houston on skyscrapers so this argument is useless
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Old 12-24-2010, 06:33 PM
 
Location: Dallas,Texas
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I told you that ages ago. Dallas don't beat Houston on skyscrapers so this argument is useless
It seems like when someone give you the facts, you try to twist it. Ok, at least we have a good skyline. Some cities don't have a building over 600 ft.
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Old 12-24-2010, 06:38 PM
 
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It seems like when someone give you the facts, you try to twist it. Ok, at least we have a good skyline. Some cities don't have a building over 600 ft.
no twist, just pointing out your errors. you skipped 806 main and didn't use a standard measure

now lets get back to how awesome TMC is
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Old 12-24-2010, 06:45 PM
 
Location: Dallas,Texas
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no twist, just pointing out your errors. you skipped 806 main and didn't use a standard measure

now lets get back to how awesome TMC is
OMG, you don't know anything about architecture. You think you know but you don't. You ALWAYS count the spire on a building, the roof height doesn't really matter. Its not the official height. How would the New World Trade Center be the tallest building in America without a spire???? By roof height the Willis Tower (Sears Tower) is taller, but WTC will be taller because of the spire.
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Old 12-24-2010, 07:01 PM
 
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OMG, you don't know anything about architecture. You think you know but you don't. You ALWAYS count the spire on a building, the roof height doesn't really matter. Its not the official height. How would the New World Trade Center be the tallest building in America without a spire???? By roof height the Willis Tower (Sears Tower) is taller, but WTC will be taller because of the spire.
you count spires, but that thing on top of the RT is not a spire
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Old 12-24-2010, 11:35 PM
 
Location: Dallas,Texas
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you count spires, but that thing on top of the RT is not a spire
Dude, stop acting like a child it is annoying and its not cute. If it wasn't a spire it wouldn't count for the structural height. The height of th building would still be 710 ft.
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Old 12-25-2010, 08:57 AM
 
Location: Underneath the Pecan Tree
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Htown......Franklin Lofts is not considered a high-rise; The Praetorian is considering the first Skyscraper in not only Texas, but the western United states. Dallas and Waco are both considered as where the first skyscrapers in Texas were built.
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Old 12-25-2010, 09:50 AM
 
Location: Dallas,Texas
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Htown......Franklin Lofts is not considered a high-rise; The Praetorian is considering the first Skyscraper in not only Texas, but the western United states. Dallas and Waco are both considered as where the first skyscrapers in Texas were built.
I told him that too.
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Old 12-25-2010, 01:39 PM
 
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Yea I understand that but…Why are you such a homer? Every metropolitan area can over hype and over exaggerate their credentials. I love DFW born and raised but half this stuff you speak of is highly exaggerated at best.
What is not exaggerated is that there is something unique about the shopping along the Super Corridor: The remarkable 23 mile south to north stretch in the Dallas area made up by the platinum business corridor of Dallas Parkway, serving as its western boundary,and the golden retail corridor of Preston Road, serving as its eastern one.
Travel east of the Super Corridor to Central Expressway and quality steps down a notch. Travel west of it and the quality steps down drastically. The anomaly outside of the Super Corridor is the Northpark commercial shopping district. Travel one step further east of Northpark to the new Park Lane development and quality steps down even further.
Indeed, outside of the Super Corridor and the Northpark commercial shopping district along Central Expressway, everything in the Dallas - Fort Worth area is malls, discount centers, town centers and shopping centers.
As retail and wholesale are often thought of as the poor man's industry, it is a serious business in Dallas - Fort Worth. In my opinion, upscale in Dallas is not something to brag about as this is actually a step down from what it used to be. In the future, the Dallas area needs to get back to the business of setting the standard of the scale.
As setting the scale is always better than selling upscale, another rule of retail is one never sells downscale (The blue-light special jokes that destroyed K-Mart). Instead, one sells discount. Dallas used to be the whole package from setting the scale to selling at a discount.
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