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List of tallest buildings in Miami (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
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Article is poorly maintained; it seems that there was a lot of work put into it during a relatively exciting time during the past decade. It has since, however, fallen badly out of date. Furthermore, it is and long has been littered with errors. It is a difficult subject to tackle as many sources are conflicting, and the go-to sites like Emporis and the CTBUH database Skyscraper Center are often outdated or wrong. The majority of the linked articles in the list are worded very poorly, which is not at the very least due to language barrier; often the English itself is a grammatical nightmare. Additionally, going back to outdated or simply wrong data, projects in this area are changed and revised so often, sometimes even during mid-construction, that almost no database is accountable. A case study is an article I tried to go a little more in depth on: Panorama Tower. Even that information is not solid as sources have thrown out wildly different numbers, some due to previous designs, some by different methods of measurement. Even "reputable" sources are not reputable in Florida. NBC Miami called a most likely 99 year-old building (going by an online property data mining site) that others call 102 or 103 years old 140 years old NBC 6. Don't even bother with The Miami Herald. A more in depth, strictly engineering-based database of observed information would be better, or the final data the FAA receives is about what it would take to keep up. Even this regional business journal quoting a local attorney states how ungrounded the subject is: "The city of Miami is so hell bent on development that safety takes a back seat." Tower heights concern FAA A more minor but still very prevalent issue is the fact that most heights, especially what is quoted in FAA approvals, goes by height AMSL not HAGL as virtually every building in the city is at an elevation between five and ten feet.
Although it is highly unlikely that anybody doing serious research on engineering or architecture would go by Wikipedia, or even doing serious research on this type of architecture in the first place, it is detrimental to call this content featured. B137 (talk) 19:55, 24 October 2014 (UTC)