These turned out a lot better than I expected, and the interplay with light at some times almost make them look like sculptures, not residential buildings, which I imagine was the desired effect. Kudos to the architects.
That being said, I can't help but feeling that standing under them for extended periods of time would cause some people - many people - some level of anxiety. As humans we are predisposed to perceive structural rigidity after a certain age - say 5-10 - and this building appears to break all of those rules. My concious brain knows this is structurally sound, but my unconcious brain has an ever-so-slight fight or flight response even when looking at some of these pictures. Will be interesting to see if regular people - not us skyscraper nerds - notice this and write or post about it.
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"Then each time Fleetwood would be not so much overcome by remorse as bedazzled at having been shown the secret backlands of wealth, and how sooner or later it depended on some act of murder, seldom limited to once."
Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
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