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Originally Posted by Milksteak
In this case that's a good thing...I still can't get into this one, the location is too prime for an oblong rectangle box. I know they have different levels and materials, and kudos to them for making it interesting, but it still looks like a supersized KOP office building.
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How is this building a rectangle box? If anything it's a dozen rectangular boxes of varying sizes all assembled together. The building is filled with cut outs and set backs and all manner of techniques to keep this looking anything like a rectangular box.
Also, since when are rectangular buildings the greatest crime architecture can commit? I feel like I've been hearing this criticism again and again lately. Especially in regards to One Riverside, as though the building might as well sink into the Schuylkill and kill itself for daring to have 4 sides meeting each other at right angles.
I just don't get. Most buildings are rectangles for entirely practical reasons, while it is interesting to have oddly shaped buildings and it adds diversity and contrast to a cityscape, a city filled with oddly shaped buildings would be ridiculous and totally inefficient.
The hope is that a building is not boring or bland and while making a building look like a pickle is certainly one way to ensure a building doesn't look boring, there are still plenty of ways for even the most rectangular of buildings to look interesting. I think both this development and One Riverside are excellent looking buildings that aren't boring.