Trump's Chicago Skyscraper Is Disappointing
Blair Kamin reviews the design of the riverfront skyscraper that Donald Trump is planning to build in Chicago.
"I find it hard to say which is more disappointing about Donald Trump's plan for a bloated blob of a skyscraper on the prime riverfront site now occupied by the Chicago Sun-Times building -- the mediocrity of the design or the facile, thumbs-up reviews it's getting from Mayor Richard M. Daley's top planners."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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Published on Wednesday, December 19, 2001 in
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