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Originally Posted by Notyrview
Yes, that's what I'm talking about. There's nothing wrong with wanting some diversity. We seem to be stuck in a design trap where a few firms, all very good, but all very, very traditional, design everything. And let's face it, that gets stale.
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I agree, there's too much blue glass near the confluence now, and this design seems like a mashup of a few existing Goettsch buildings. A very high-quality one, but one that doesn't provide any diversity to the area.
Besides the cladding, I'm disappointed there's no mixed-use element to the project. Like BVic, I wish there were another setback with hotel or even condo. The riverfront seems especially suited to mixed-use in an era when we're making residential conversions on LaSalle Street of all places to the east, and the West Loop has become the most popular neighborhood in the city to the west.
I still like it in a vacuum.