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Androiduk, your photos are always lovely. Over time they will make for a good record of projects going up from interesting viewpoints. Thanks for the post!
Something like a Woolworth Building, an American International Building, or a 40 Wall Street. I'd love to see one of those babies go up, especially in a place where it will actually have an impact on the skyline.
They just don't make 'em like they use to.
Given the biases by all but the INTBAU paleos, I suspect any "completion" will be more along these lines, for better or worse...
The Southwest portion of the foundations of Eaton's College Park were (ostensibly) designed to hold a massive 30 story tower above them (Well, to 1929 standards anyway) the rest of the building was never going to be taller than it is. So to build a 60 floor Art Deco inspired limestone-clad tower above it, would require retro-fitting of the foundations and support columns for the existing seven floors, of an enormous magnitude.
It would be like what they are doing at Maple Leaf Gardens and Union Station combined.
But it would be neato-super-cool if they did!
Eatons had plans to build a 140-storey tower there in the '70s.
Sears was 103 so why not?
(From Wikipedia found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaton's_/_John_Maryon_Tower )Eaton's / John Maryon Tower was a proposed supertall 140-storey office skyscraper, to be built in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 1971, Eaton's was going to team up with a developer named John Maryon to build a 1,650 ft (503 m) tower in the College Park area of Downtown Toronto. With a 600 ft (183 m) communication mast added to the roof of the triangular glass office tower, the total proposed height was 2,250 ft (686 m). Plans for the tower were cancelled, because building a structure of this height was considered impossible at the time of its planning. This skyscraper was planned two years before the Willis Tower was completed, and five years before the CN Tower was completed. Had the tower been built, it would have been the world's tallest building until 2008, when the Burj Khalifa surpassed its planned height.