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Smurfit-Stone Building

Fodor's Review:

Some wags have said this building, with its diamond-shape top, looks like a giant pencil sharpener. The slanted top carves through 10 floors of this 1984 building. The painted, folded-aluminum sculpture in the plaza is Yaacov Agam's Communication X9. You'll see different patterns in the sculpture depending on your vantage point.

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