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Old Posted Aug 6, 2009, 8:16 PM
Rizzo Rizzo is offline
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I'm all for architecture being symbolic, sculptural, iconic, etc. But this hotel proposal seems one of many others as a standard to look like the assortment of objects you find in my medicine cabinet.

I'm okay with this proposal, but easily bored by it. The design seems rather predictable and I don't think it plays well with the Sears Tower for being on the same block. I'm not saying the hotel shouldn't be completly different from Sears, but the juxtaposition of both structures from either street level or above should be memorable. Think about this historic water tower or the church near JHC and how many people photograph these two structures against one another. In short, I guess I was expecting something a bit more original and appealing from Adrian Smith.

Wow, said more than I wanted to.