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Originally Posted by mistermetAJ
This project screams for SOME contextual elements to go along with the church and the historic street. Here, we find yet another developer, this time a church, completely indifferent to the streetscape, cityscape, and city history. Another glass box...how original.
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There's nothing inherently unoriginal about a glass box. There's also no reason to think a glass box is "indifferent to streetscape, cityscape, and city history". If you want a Disneyland city, visit Colonial Williamsburg.
IF you personally don't like moderism, that's fine. But don't confuse your architectural biases with some larger truisms about architectural originality. And 95% of Manhattan isn't "glass boxes", so I don't get how something relatively rare can be defined as unoriginal.
But this building isn't even going to be a glass box; they hired a boring historicist architectural firm.