The 2,000-foot Chicago Spire isn’t being built for Chicagoans, Paul O’Connor was explaining to me. “The fundamental idea of the place is to be a global pied-a-terre for the superrich from the Persian Gulf states, east Asia, Russia, western Europe, and South America. The spire is a metaphor for ‘global city,’ just as ‘one-newspaper town’ is its antithesis.”
— From Michael Miner’s Hot Type column in the Reader
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