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Originally Posted by CHI -21c
I plead with all of you to LOOK PAST SHINE, LOOK PAST TWILIGHT SHOTS.
Every single building is shiny and glimmers at twilight... We all are excited about a supertall, but be critical.
I think we and Gang are kidding ourselves. It's an economical design and will be the mother of all V.E. glass boxes.
This a major problem with selecting pretentious "novelty form makers". They always need to be watered down to nothing.
Honest, beauty-seeking design is not mutually exclusive with creative architectural engineering.
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Meh. I like the design. I'm not a fan of the BS afterthought rationale for several of the design decisions... but it's doing a lot of things quite well. I'm especially impressed with the plan for this thing to connect upper wacker, lower wacker, LSE, and the riverwalk. Actually even in some of the areas where the Gang rationale is really weak I feel like they made some decent design choices though they don't seem to know why.
It doesn't bother me in the least to have 'novelty form makers' and actually it doesn't bother me that some designers create a design before working through rationale. Some designers are playful and intuitive in their approach and some are very formal and cerebral. What does bother me is when it's pretty obvious they were lazy with the design decisions before, during, and/or after they created it.