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As if Donald Trump did not already have enough headaches battling bankers, community groups and his wife, Ivana, now a prominent architects' group is attacking one of the most ambitious and expensive visions of his financially ailing empire.
In a special report issued this week, the American Institute of Architects chapter in New York recommends that the city reject Trump's plans to build a giant residential and office complex on his 76-acre site on the Upper West Side.
The report assails the so-called Trump City project, which includes plans for the world's tallest building, a 150-story skyscraper, calling it much too big at double the size of a plan approved in 1982 for a previous developer. The Sears Tower in Chicago, at 110 stories and 1,454 feet, is currently the world's tallest building. New York's tallest building, the World Trade Center, reaches 1,350 feet. It also has 110 stories.
The report also criticizes Trump's project for...