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Originally Posted by colemonkee
Looks like an homage to the reddish-brown brick of the stadium, as well as the stadium's curve. In another place one could call this building ugly, but in its context, it's starting to make more sense to me. Would rather see more of the textured, corrugated panels that line the cantilevered lower floor along Convention Ave. than the flatter panels, but other than that, this is turning out better than expected.
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Not only that, but the curved design plays off of the Penn museum rotunda and CHOP's emergency room right next to it, as well as CHOP''s buerger center. I think the curved look fits in really nicely with the majority of its surroundings.