"While I love Smith and Gill, I gotta say, with every new super-supertall tower that comes out, especially in places like Dubai, I get less and less excited. While I love good architecture and design, it doesn't mean anything if it's 95% empty, which the Burj Khalifa is. I know if a supertall is going up somewhere like Chicago or New York, I know it's going to fill up. If this gets built it will be just another empty shell, built on slave labor. Hubris at it's most extreme." —intrepidChicago [Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Designs World's Tallest Skyscraper]
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