Great pictures.
However, I can't help but be underwhelmed by Encore. Beside Met it just looks like an 88 meter podium. As a stand-alone building it would be fantastic, it has lines which are subtle, yet intriguing and the design as a whole is 'amoebically' sexy - if such a concept exists.
Perhaps it is just the east-west angle. It captures the best parts of Met while relegating Encore to a submissive position, hidden in the streetwall. Too bad - if these were separate projects I would give both two thumbs up. However, both the way they are positioned on the site and the sweeping curve which they both share (and I like so much) only enforce a contrived end product; a planned condominium rather than an intelligent, evocative piece of design.
(It's ok, I'm just arbitrarily whining (or is that wine-ing)...I think Met/Encore is one of the better-designed projects in this city in the recent past.)