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Originally Posted by untitledreality
Adjaye's work is too simplistic for my liking, they are not projects which can be revisited and rediscovered, time and time again. I also feel that his track record with large commissions is spotty.
As for SHoP, you just never know what you are going to get. There are plenty of great ideas floating through that massive office of theirs, but since you don't know outright who will lead the design, you cannot know which direction the project will take.
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SHoP is tricky, some of their stuff is good, but lots of it looks like sliced minimalism with bigger budgets and more gimmicky tchotch tacked on to the facade.
Love it or hate it, but Adjaye would be a good addition to the Vinoly, Jahn, MAD, Foster, possibly BIG, Gang and (arguably) Stern super group that's coming through in the next few years. He would add to Chicago as a global architecture destination as opposed to just an american one, as well.