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No and it's not needed either. We're not growing as fast as China, India, or the Middle East and they already have claustrophobically dense cities with limited space. They need them, we don't. I.E. Shanghai grew by a hair over 7 million people last decade, that's equal to raw numbers of NYC, L.A., Houston, Dallas, and D.C. combined.
We don't have the market demands for it and BTW, 1776 feet is a very high mark to crack, if any cities could it would only be NYC and Chicago. The US will get more supertalls but I don't think either city is seeing 1800ft + for a long time.
432 Park will be even taller than 1WTC (minus the spire/antenna). New York's supertall boom is absolutely crazy right now with all the U/C's and proposals. Chicago's has slowed down quite a bit, rightfully so due to the economy here. I could see New York topping the 1,776 pinnacle themselves with another proposal. Not really sure if that 2nd phase of the Post Office Redevelopment will happen, but that's the next biggest chance Chicago has of topping 1WTC.
Like Blaxtor said, we aren't growing as fast as some of those other countries, so it really isn't needed. I can see more supertalls being built in cities like LA, SF, Miami, and Houston. -- but as far as eclipsing that 1WTC height, it's more likely to happen in either New York or Chicago.
I'm of the philosophy that when figuring out the "tallest" skyscrapers, spires and atennae need to be excluded from the criteria. It's, frankly, stupid to claim a building as being the "tallest" when a big chunk of it isn't even accessible without mountaineering equipment. We're going to reach a point someday where the world's tallest building is going to be some 2 story office park with a spire that stretches halfway to the moon.
And THAT is why I do not acknowledge the Freedom tower as the tallest.
No and it's not needed either. We're not growing as fast as China, India, or the Middle East and they already have claustrophobically dense cities with limited space. They need them, we don't. I.E. Shanghai grew by a hair over 7 million people last decade, that's equal to raw numbers of NYC, L.A., Houston, Dallas, and D.C. combined.
We don't have the market demands for it and BTW, 1776 feet is a very high mark to crack, if any cities could it would only be NYC and Chicago. The US will get more supertalls but I don't think either city is seeing 1800ft + for a long time.
It's not that only NYC or Chicago could crack it - it's that they're the only 2 cities with governments that actually place the tiniest bit of importance on such things. About 15 years ago, Bill Gates got a wild hair and decided he'd build the world's tallest building in Seattle and then put all of the area's Microsoft employees into it, and then changed his mind when he realized it'd serve absolutely no functional purpose. Instead, he bought about half of Redmond around the existing headquarters and put up extra campuses and then built a few more reasonably sized skyscrapers in Bellevue.
I'm of the philosophy that when figuring out the "tallest" skyscrapers, spires and atennae need to be excluded from the criteria. It's, frankly, stupid to claim a building as being the "tallest" when a big chunk of it isn't even accessible without mountaineering equipment. We're going to reach a point someday where the world's tallest building is going to be some 2 story office park with a spire that stretches halfway to the moon.
And THAT is why I do not acknowledge the Freedom tower as the tallest.
Totally agree. That's why the mast in Blanchard, ND at 2063 feet is not considered the tallest building in the US. It's considered the tallest "structure." Most sources do not count antennae or anything like that as part of the official height. If that was the case, Sears Tower would be considered 1729 feet tall, not 1451 feet tall.
1 WTC Freedom Tower will be considered 1776 ft by many people due to its symbolism, but "official" sources will count it at about 1368 feet.
The CTBUH recognizes tall building height in three categories:
[SIZE=2]1. Height to Architectural Top [/SIZE]Height is measured from the level1 of the lowest, significant,2 open-air,3 pedestrian4 entrance to the architectural top of the building, including spires, but not including antennae, signage, flag poles or other functional-technical equipment.5 This measurement is the most widely utilized and is employed to define the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat rankings of the [SIZE=2]"World's Tallest Buildings."[/SIZE][SIZE=2][/SIZE]
No and it's not needed either. We're not growing as fast as China, India, or the Middle East and they already have claustrophobically dense cities with limited space. They need them, we don't. I.E. Shanghai grew by a hair over 7 million people last decade, that's equal to raw numbers of NYC, L.A., Houston, Dallas, and D.C. combined.
We don't have the market demands for it and BTW, 1776 feet is a very high mark to crack, if any cities could it would only be NYC and Chicago. The US will get more supertalls but I don't think either city is seeing 1800ft + for a long time.
This.
Most US cities just don't have a whole lot of density, in most instances it's far more practical to build out than to build up.
For instance, Sioux Falls, SD has about 160K people and doesn't have a single building officially listed at 200 feet (which is rather sad). Perhaps more astonishing is that Phoenix, AZ (city proper of about 1.5M) doesn't have a single building over 500 feet. Little Rock, Tulsa, and Mobile all have at least one building taller than PHX's tallest.
The Spire was a beautiful design. It would have been cool to see the Freedom Tower and the Chicago Spire go up together at the same time as a stronger sign for America's come back. It seems that Dubai has put more buildings up than both Chicago and NYC combined during it's short boom in the last 20 years.
I have a question for you folks do you think NYC or Chicago will ever allow for something to be built higher than Dubai's Burj Khalifa 2,722 ft . Does the FAA have a federal height limit across the county for all cities? Can we build a Mile High Illinois Tower?
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