Essay Archive - Tall Stories
Tall Stories
Picture in your mind the skyline of downtown Toronto. There's the CN Tower,
of course, and the 72-floor First Canadian Place, the city's tallest
skyscraper. Cascading from there are the assorted banks and hotels and
Now, use your imagination to construct some new buildings, these ones
reaching three, four and five times higher than the others. Top it all off
with a skyscraper one mile high (three times as high as the CN Tower).
Sound fanciful? It did 30 years ago when Frank Lloyd Wright proposed
the first mile-high building.
But not today. We are now said to be entering the age of the
superskyscraper, with tall buildin....
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