Comments on: Chicago Spire? That Looks Like A… http://tannish.net/2007/03/27/chicago-spire-that-looks-like-a/ Nobody Told Me There'd Be Days Like These Wed, 23 May 2012 09:44:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Tannish http://tannish.net/2007/03/27/chicago-spire-that-looks-like-a/#comment-7921 Tannish Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:48:37 +0000 http://tannish.net/2007/03/27/chicago-spire-that-looks-like-a/#comment-7921 Thanks for your thoughtful comment. Of course your right. Similar thoughts occurred in time, but I was attempting to record a first impression. No doubt that had more to do with my mental state that moment than the subject manner... It IS a striking project, and I would be happy to see the city of my birth again be home to the nation's tallest building. Chicago is the birthplace of the skyscraper; we should again be prominent - if only for a while. Thanks for your thoughtful comment. Of course your right.

Similar thoughts occurred in time, but I was attempting to record a first impression. No doubt that had more to do with my mental state that moment than the subject manner…

It IS a striking project, and I would be happy to see the city of my birth again be home to the nation’s tallest building. Chicago is the birthplace of the skyscraper; we should again be prominent - if only for a while.

]]> By: pogyd http://tannish.net/2007/03/27/chicago-spire-that-looks-like-a/#comment-7899 pogyd Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:48:34 +0000 http://tannish.net/2007/03/27/chicago-spire-that-looks-like-a/#comment-7899 After seeing many of Calatrava's creations in person and in pictures, I feel very comfortable with the spire he intends to create on the Chicago lakefront. As to its symbolism.... I watched the video from your link and was taken aback by the phallick nature of the Sears Tower in the background, with the forskin retracted. As I kept watching, that image all of a sudden took the form of the "finger" and what can be more phallic than that. Anyway the world is full of such, albeit lower, structures. The Eifel Tower in Paris, the Empire State Building in New York are a couple of examples. They were, at the time of their building, structures that towered (no pun intended) over the landscape. Yet I never heard any body refferring to the Eifel tower as the Paris dildo or to the Empire State Building as the New York dildo. Practicality aside, I don't believe the adjective will stick to this majestically soaring spiral on the Chicago lakefront either. It will dominate without hiding the rest of the city from view. After seeing many of Calatrava’s creations in person and in pictures, I feel very comfortable with the spire he intends to create on the Chicago lakefront. As to its symbolism…. I watched the video from your link and was taken aback by the phallick nature of the Sears Tower in the background, with the forskin retracted. As I kept watching, that image all of a sudden took the form of the “finger” and what can be more phallic than that.
Anyway the world is full of such, albeit lower, structures. The Eifel Tower in Paris, the Empire State Building in New York are a couple of examples. They were, at the time of their building, structures that towered (no pun intended) over the landscape. Yet I never heard any body refferring to the Eifel tower as the Paris dildo or to the Empire State Building as the New York dildo.
Practicality aside, I don’t believe the adjective will stick to this majestically soaring spiral on the Chicago lakefront either. It will dominate without hiding the rest of the city from view.

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