[wierdaaron]

I don't think I've been this in love with a new tower design in a while. The two river offices being built aren't bad-looking and I'm very excited about the confluence getting filled out finally, but they don't really speak to me as expressions of art the way this does.

The real tragedy is that this will get lost in the skyline from any vantage. It deserves a better stage, like the river or fronting the park, where people would get to experience it in context and not only looking straight up at it from the sidewalk below it.

I know Spertus made a lot of people start to think differently about aesthetics of material and nonconventional forms, and I hope this moves that school forward. I think it's a great response to the recent "sliced glass" trend a la One11, Optima, and Loews hotel, without being too purposely contrarian like post-modernism was to modernism.

I'm going to start wishlisting buildings for immediate demolition to give this thing more visibility.