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I'm neither an architect nor a designer, but my gut reaction is that you can only get so creative at 1,070′. Without any evidence to back this up, I'm going to say that physics will force most skyscraper designs to converge.

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I think the Burj Khalifa disagrees with you.

After capkutay's and anonfunction's comments, I disagree with me too, haha

Congratulations on being a reasonable human being.

I'm really unsure why this got down voted, I was genuinely glad to see someone change their opinion (however minor) when presented with facts that discredited it.

Maybe someone was upset at the use of "human being" because of a perceived connotation that people who behave irrationally thereby lose some of their humanity? (I'm sure you only meant "congratulations on being willing to change your opinion".)

But yes, it's not particularly beautiful or original

If you look at the tallest buildings they all have unique designs.

http://www.hearandplay.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/t...

The competing design for transbay (salesforce) tower was much nicer but their group didn't win because they bid less money on the project. [0]

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zKV9lrNlb8M/maxresdefault.jpg

0: http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2007/09/pelli_clarke_pell...

That looks so much better tbh.

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