Back on Top

Well, K-bors, it's been nearly two weeks since we last spoke, but I'm BACK... tell a friend. It's recently been brought to my attention that the City of Chicago has decided to re-assert its position at the pinnacle of the USA's architectural pantheon, thanks to the Fordham Company and Santiago Calatrava.

Calatrava's Fordham Spire - that would be the tremendously tall, shockingly shiny, corkscrew-looking beauty that's been digitally inserted into the photo of the Chicago skyline below - will be 124-stories (that's 2,000 ft, or 609.6 meters for all you Europeans) of residential delight. With any luck, I'll be freaking loaded by the time they finish it and I can live there.

I was pleasantly reminded by the news of this project's approval that Chicago is, in fact, the greatest city in the world. Now, I'm not sure why so many people have failed to realize this, but I think that failure is a big part of what makes Chicago so wonderful. You're sleepin' on us, USA.

It's no coincidence that three of the four tallest buildings in the country (the Sears Tower, the Aon Center and the John Hancock Center) live in my city. By the time the Fordham Spire is completed, that figure could be at seven of eight (as long as the slow-pokes building the Freedom Tower in NY continue their snail's pace). The Tall Tower, the Waterview Tower and the Trump International Hotel & Tower are already under construction. So if you thought your city was cool, just realize that when it comes to phalli, we OWN you.