Yep, that's more like it. Although, by contrast, that north face.... whoa.
Aren't the cladding the upper part of the north face? You can see the open spots ready for the brackets.
 
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Sorry, hard to see well, but as of last night there are still several of the scrim panels to attach:

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Lovely harmony with the waves of the AGO when looking westbound.
 
Think it really would have benefited from the second layer behind. Would have given this a lot more depth instead of feeling like it's tacked on.
 
I actually like the tectonic quality of the final built screen more than the strange eggshell-like structure in the renderings, which felt sort of overly fussy.

I do also agree that more should have been done with the building, as the underlying building's still a jumbled mess behind the screen. Don't know what they could have done on a budget, but maybe specifying a dark paneling for the ground floor walls could have helped?

I wonder if painting the columns black could help in reducing their visual prominence and disturbance of the horizontal flows?
 
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I actually like the tectonic quality of the final built screen more than the strange eggshell-like structure in the renderings, which felt sort of overly fussy.

I do also agree that more should have been done with the building, as the underlying building's still a jumbled mess behind the screen. Don't know what they could have done on a budget, but maybe specifying a dark paneling for the ground floor walls could have helped?

I wonder if painting the columns black could help in reducing their visual prominence and disturbance of the horizontal flows?

I agree. I personally would've darkened the underlying building with blacker paneling and then made the the fancy panels a bit whiter. I like the formation of them quite a bit, reminds me a bit of looking down on a city, but the silver doesn't work for me.

EDIT: Here's a quick, basic, rough Photoshop of what I mean:
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