Darker - or even clear - spandrel glass would have created a better visual separation of the glass area and the concrete panels, as well as the colored glass panels, and better defined the rectangles that the concrete panels form, which grow in height at the tower goes up. It's an intended design element that would have further expressed the verticality of the tower that gets lost in the execution. It's still a nice looking tower, but that one little detail sacrifices some of what made it unique.
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"Then each time Fleetwood would be not so much overcome by remorse as bedazzled at having been shown the secret backlands of wealth, and how sooner or later it depended on some act of murder, seldom limited to once."
Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
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