Picture L.A.

Picture the skyline of Los Angeles. How about Minneapolis, Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, Phoenix, even Chicago?

You can’t? Oh, well.

Now picture Washington D. C., Seattle, Toronto or New York. You know those skylines, don’t you? There might be a gimmick—Seattle’s Space Needle; Toronto’s CN Tower with the scary glass floor.

Or there might be the building that defines a city, one that cameras capture, one that ensures identity.

I thought about this when I viewed the proposals eight developers submitted for perking up