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Reach for the sky

Discovery Channel Magazine, April 2012

In 1987 a young architecture student called Timothy Johnson, an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, visited Chicago for the first time. He was overwhelmed by the mighty skyscrapers that rose, muscular, from the city floor – the Sears Tower, the John Hancock Center – and was both delighted and deflated. On his way back to the Midwest farmland where the tallest buildings were grain silos and water towers, “I was quite depressed, thinking I was born a hundred years too late,” he recalls. “Wouldn’t it have been great to be in a city like Chicago at the turn of the century, when it was all being built – when the US itself was being built?”

Then he went to Asia. “And then I realized: no, I was born at exactly the right time.”

See the article as it ran here: DCM-SKYSCRAPERS

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