[Sheepish]

Fair enough...I will hold judgement (not that the developer would care about my judgement!). I just think there is a wide space between hideous and iconic...and the render as is leans heavily to the hideous. (particularly if you take away the beautiful park like setting it has been plopped down in in the rendering!)
Here is my issue - in a city that is lacking in natural beauty (once you get away from the rivers), there needs to be some creative use of design to create beauty. This sure doesn't do it! And defending this by noting there is 'far worse' would seem to suggest that '2 wrongs indeed make a right'. We should expect better.