They mentioned that the new design would tie into the existing design of the 400 building in which case I'm not really seeing any similarities. I'm not sure how I feel about the 2 designs chosen, let alone even the third design they eliminated, but I would take almost anything over our existing city hall.
A few things to note. The new city hall will not have parking immediately adjacent to the building as you see now, this is due to council passing a motion to build a new parking garage along McDougall to offset the loss of the surface parking that now sits along City Hall Sq W.
So whatever design they decide on it will facilitate more greening of that entire area by adding more park than what is currently there. Although I wonder how they're going to accommodate handicapped people, but I assume they're going to take that into account and provide them some spots close to the new city hall somewhere.
Some of these pictures were taken from another article talking about the new parking garage that will be built near city hall.
source:
http://blogs.windsorstar.com/news/co...-and-city-hall