http://phillyist.com/2006/12/27/nineteen_years.php All comments for Nineteen Years at the Top en-us 2009 MikeMuller Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:15:29 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss redmullersox@yahoo.com redmullersox@yahoo.com 60 http://phillyist.com/2006/12/27/nineteen_years.php#comment-859505 http://phillyist.com/2006/12/27/nineteen_years.php#comment-859505 Comments Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:45:02 -0500 <p>Thanks for the compliments and good point about the Freedom Tower being a reaction to 9/11. However, there is something of a larger trend going on in the US right now. As I mentioned in the article, no top 25 skyscrapers have been completed between 1992 and 2006. However, several will be inserted into the top 25 in the next couple years, some of which are already under construction. I actually started to include some of them in the write-up but it became a bit wordy. But those that I can name off the top of my head are the Comcast Center, Freedom Tower, Trump Tower in Chicago, and NY Times Tower in NYC. Various other proposals are in the works all over the US and a few will break ground in 2007 or 2008. By the way, some of the links in the post are dead due to one of IPowerWeb's servers crapping out today.</p> http://phillyist.com/2006/12/27/nineteen_years.php#comment-857933 http://phillyist.com/2006/12/27/nineteen_years.php#comment-857933 Comments Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:57:18 -0500 <p>I love this write up and especially love the photos, but I don't see the second Philadelphia skyscrapper boom as eally part of a larger trend. You cite the Freedom tower in New York, but that is more of an anomaly as it is a reaction to Sept 11 and really only being built because the world trade center was knocked down.</p>