![]() ![]() Blair Kamin, architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune, had been in touch with me earlier and I had mentioned to him that our meeting would finish about 4:00pm and that he could stop by if he wished.įour o’clock came, we opened the door and there was Blair-together with a host of others. We held our Executive meeting-as scheduled and without the press in attendance. Jay Leno joked on the Tonight Show with a line that all the Council did was once every ten years to look up in the sky and say, “Yep, that’s the tallest!” Even “Spiderman” -the skyscraper climbing daredevil-wanted a list of the 100 tallest buildings so he could climb them all, having already put Sears, World Trade Center, and Empire State under his belt. In the days leading up to the Executive Committee meeting, Council headquarters received at least 75 phone calls from television, radio, newspaper, and magazine journalists requesting information and interviews. It was the culmination of weeks of “media awareness” of the competition between Sears and Petronas. “ Yes, it’s been an item on our agenda for a year.” CNN and NBC’s “Today Show” arranged to interview me atop the Sears Tower in the days before the Executive meeting. As soon as that word got out, the call came even more frequently. Newspapers, magazines, television, radio, producers of programs-all called.ĭuring the previous year we had planned that our April Executive Committee meeting would be held in Chicago since it would coincide with a Congress of one of our Sponsoring Societies. It was the successful challenge by Petronas Towers (Malaysia) for “the world’s tallest building” title that opened a floodgate of media approaches to the Council in 1996. ![]()
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