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Originally Posted by Jim in Chicago
Not to my taste but easily removed later and replaced with something more sympathetic with no lasting harm.
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Sure, but it is a particularly incongruous choice given the relationship to Willis Tower. If it were it's own building, it is kind of just whatever - but some of the finish choices on the addition are two steps removed from the established design patterns in the tower. The clear glass, ovoid skylight in the entrance, noisy tile pattern (that doesn't really fit the clean structural lines of the tower either) all add up to something that sits in a valley where you can see a relationship to the tower but also is far enough away with a lot of choices that it creates weird tension.
I wish they would have committed to a more seamless extension or gone fully in the opposite direction with something that more deliberately contrasted with the tower. This is just kind of awkwardly middling.