Posted Jul 8, 2016, 9:12 PM
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^I'm still not seeing it either. Glass towers in the 1980s were typified by highly reflective mirrored glass in bold colors such as blue, green, or black, emphasized horizontals or no emphasis in either direction (such as your second picture), and mostly flat facades, relying mostly on the particular shapes of the buildings. Think 300 S Riverside.
This building on the other hand, has light blue gray glass with comparatively lower reflectance, strong emphasis on verticals, vertical mullion fins, and a glass fin wall, all of which are distinctly of the 21st century. The only thing sort of evocative of the 80s are the sloped underside of the cantilevers and emphasized mechanical louvers, which do feel a little like the colonnade on the E and W sides of the Thomson Center.
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