This is hands down Rafael Vinoly's best high rise work in the U.S. In terms of context, like Steely noted, it's hard to beat. Up there with his Walkie Talkie tower in London and Mahler 4 in Amsterdam (which Bjark-Ingels appropriated for The Spiral in NY's Hudson Yards).
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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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