[HK Chicago]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

it's wise to make absolutist proclomations about proposed works of architecture going on nothing more than a scanned black & white newspaper image that was small and crappy to begin with. only an idiot would take a more cautionary approach and wait for more visual information to be released by the development team before taking a hard line stance either for or against. as anyone who is even remotely affiliated with the field of architecture knows, detailing is absolutely irrelevant to the quality of a work of architecture, as long as you have a blurry image of the gross massing of a building, that's really the only piece of info needed to proclaim it either an outright abomination or the artistic equivalent of the second coming of christ.

patience is for suckers, it's much wiser to be hasty. let's all rush to judgement!

This building may be great, but isn't.