Trump's Chicago Skyscraper Is Disappointing

Blair Kamin reviews the design of the riverfront skyscraper that Donald Trump is planning to build in Chicago.

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December 20, 2001, 8:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"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

FULL STORY: Trump's skyscraper reaches for mediocrity

Wednesday, December 19, 2001 in The Chicago Tribune

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