[hammersklavier]

Brutalist plazas in general are failures. Daley, Federal, Reyburn, (Boston) City Hall...The complete, total, and irrevocable failure of the Brutalist plaza is something that the architectural profession has never come to grips with (and as certain posts here show) are still in denial about. If you don't learn from your mistakes you're doomed to repeat them.

I agree that since part of the 150 N. Riverside site is an overbuild, and the architecture proposed requires a striking view, a large part of the site will never be anything other than a glorified green roof. And that's fine...on Lake. But on Randolph, minimal urban interventions help keep the transition from the Loop to the West Loop vital while not creating the minor border vacuum that a corporate park tends to.