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Yikes! Looks just awful and it doesn't even match the building. Should have left the classic stone cladding alone. Not every tower needs to look like it's sitting on top of a parking garage podium because essentially that's what this looks like now, albeit poorly done.

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What's most disturbing about the facelift is the corruption of modernist design. The prior design was elegant, unitary in form and the structural components of the building dictated the design (the now covered windows of the lower floors expressed the distribution of gravity loads). The facelift blends two styles and the result is a jumbled postmodernism: modernist - the facelift retains the visual depiction of the distribution of gravity loads by gradually narrowing the slits and everything above the facelift is still modernist; some sort of neoclassical impulse - adding a podium.

 

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I would like to see a night pic of this when it has all the lighting up. I agree the color of the material isn't very inspiring. The black just looks too washed out, but from one of the renderings it might look really nice at night?

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