Honestly, I don’t find it all that bad. I’m not a fan of the variegated roofline and think it would look better with a flat roof, but that’s my own taste. The panels aren’t bad, but the color differences in the concrete are hard to discern and will be obscured relatively quickly when it’s dirty. A bigger difference could have kept that impression better over time, which would have helped more in breaking up the facade for visual interest.
Someone in another thread recently was speculating that we may see a return to facadism and a move away from modernism, with computing technologies potentially making construction of detail significantly easier and cheaper. I hope that’s the case. Pre-cast concrete (or other materials) panels assembled in a more highly detailed facade would be nice accentuated by the same window layout in the overall massing this building has.
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