Thanks for the pics, androiduk.
Well, now that this one is far enough underway to imagine what the rest of it will look like...it's depressingly easy to imagine what the rest of it will look like.
Well, that kind of predictable reassurance can count as a stolid virtue in some cases. Law cases, packing cases, filing cabinets. It looks like nothing we haven't seen before, and nothing we won't see again. Let's hope God is really in the details on this one, because there's nothing inspired about the rest of it.
For those not looking for the rest of it, though, it's still not without functionalist pleasures you won't have to have a magnifying glass or a book by Vitruvius - or Google button - to discover. The office floors will, no doubt, be amazingly level, and meet the modernist curtainwall discreetly. The building will take up the exact amount of space it was meant to, and, astonishingly, no more. It will be cost-engineered to last long enough, to maximize a particular range of profits. Changes in lighting conditions will change how it appears. Adjusting a certain thermostat will change the indoor temperature of certain areas. People will be able to walk around it, allowed to observe others inside interactively though the miracle material known as plate glass. Who can say it's without it's modernist charms? Modernist, but not particularly modern. Nor deeply intelligent. Nor generous, which was badly needed in this place.
Oh well, it's up, it's nearly done, it's out of our hands. So it goes. In the Protestant orphanges that dotted our early city they'd say to the kids as they dished out their oatmeal: it's good for you, you don't need better, and who do you think you are, anyway?