[khris]

Yeah, I'm giving the Alarm Bells awards to @khristopher and @ProjectEnd on this one (but any fan of brutalism knew this was likely to be an aesthetic crime)!

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For which post?

 

[interchange42]

#3, for the seemingly prescient concern you register there!

 

[adma]

Yeah, I'm giving the Alarm Bells awards to @khristopher and @ProjectEnd on this one (but any fan of brutalism knew this was likely to be an aesthetic crime)!

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Could be. If anything, I might have been first to raise contextual issues that went beyond the aesthetic (the whole "City Hall precinct" matter, etc)

 

[interchange42]

Could be. If anything, I might have been first to raise contextual issues that went beyond the aesthetic (the whole "City Hall precinct" matter, etc)

Totally, the Big Picture and the Beyond the Obvious awards are all yours.

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[Edward Skira]

 

[UrbanAffair]

Gross injustice.

 

[Amare]

The destruction looks about half complete. Congrats to Cadillac Fairview and all other parties involved.

 

[Edward Skira]

I don't actually mind the base so much.

 

[Automation Gallery]

I don't actually mind the base so much.

I dont know?, but i bet by the time it's all said and done more people will like this than hate it

 

[Gphorce]

Are they covering the vertical concrete sections? It looks like they will be, and the renders don't make it very clear. It will be shame if they do, the contrast between the rough concrete and smooth glass is so far the only redeeming feature of this reclad.

 

[interchange42]

They have a nice, smooth, full metal jacket coming up for those.

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[Gphorce]

They have a nice, smooth, full metal jacket coming up for those.

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Oh. Welp, there goes any hope I was holding for this one. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[Amare]

Everything I look at this thing, it makes me more and more nauseous.

 

[Automation Gallery]

Everything I look at this thing, it makes me more and more nauseous.

Sorry

 

[adma]

I dont know?, but i bet by the time it's all said and done more people will like this than hate it

Not in this thread, barring an influx of ignorant newbies.

And actually, I'd reckon more people would be more indifferent/noncommittal than either liking it or hating it. Or would "hate it" on generic modern-skyscraper grounds. Or if they "like it", it'd be on functional grounds totally divorced from the aesthetic--office workers and the like. Or on generic freshening-up-of-a-modern-skyscraper grounds, sort of like how McMansions "freshen up" a "tired" neighbourhood...