I went and took a very close look at Moon today. I did a full lap and a half around the building and spent more time looking at it than I ever have previously now that it is shaping up.
I first exited Lyon station to the north and sat down across the street. I probably spent 5 minutes looking at this and pondered.
My first thought was how similar the glazing and dummy panels were to Royale. Not a bad thing. I like the ratio of glazing to brick. I like how the balconies are recessed as opposed to Loop. I'm wondering if what we see now as blue skin will get turned into beige brick, not sure how I feel about that. It is one heck of a monolithic slab though and it could have used an element aside from swapping brick color.
I like this. But at the same time I don't get the massive vertical beige brick column. It should say the name of the building in letters like Hillside did. Or perhaps some low key vertical LED strip. Some type of relief or feature of any sort. It's peculiar. I dig the ratio of glazing though.
And here you go.. the most prominent angle of the building from a distance is pretty crappy. Like.. are those Titanic ocean liner portals for windows? WTF
The balcony glass is .. strange. It looks like a stiff breeze would blow it over.
I don't get why they don't have 1 piece of support on the outside corners. For the 90 degrees spot that have a pair of supports spaced as such I found it visually distracting. I dunno.
And here is the answer to one of the biggest questions I've had for a while now. What on earth were they going to fill in those blueskin sections with? It's the same material as the dummy panels in between the windows as they rise each floor. I'm ok with that. I wonder if some of the other blueskinned sections you see in the other photos will get the same treatment. The crosses are stupid though. No more crosses.
So in conclusion.. bit of a mixed bag of feelings.
I wish the terrace thing over the shorter section was more chunky like they show in the renders. Right now it looks so tiny and spindly given the scale of the rest of the building. They should have fattened that up. Some white LED accent lighting would be cherry.
Materials quality looks to be on point for the most part.
The northwest corner is a real let down. It's bad, really bad.
The two taller towers could have really used a roof feature to help break up how plainly vertical they are.
No direct LRT connection unless the Kool-Aid guy shows up.
It's pretty average overall and only needed a bit of creative details that aren't swapping brick color to give it a little nudge in the right direction.