I never thought a podium as indelicately conceived as FCP's could be dumbed down, but it seems that's just what has happened.
I saw it for the first time a few days ago - the whole podium just doesn't seem to make much sense with itself anymore. The reduction of the podium to a flimsy, generic box with pointless glass enclosures (over existing banks of recessed windows) as it's architectural selling point is not a step up, or even a considerate rethinking.
I wish the base lived up to the tower. The renovation has been a first-rate job. It's a hard to see the base so crudely altered, on a job we've been wanting to see happen for a long time. Especially when the tower itself has worked out so well.