Interestingly enough, my favourite of the big three is the IDS Tower, the other blue glass building. It's the most similar to Scotia in that they're both POMO/Modernist fusions with restrained designs with flat roof lines and are both much wider in one dimension than the other. And both successfully empathize the sense of soaring height without setbacks.
I also quite enjoy the WFC, but the Capella tower... I like the role it plays in the skyline but I'm very lukewarm on it in terms of its own individual merits. That's what's so funny about POMO. I don't even consider it a single style, but rather a style category which explains why examples can be so vastly different from one another. You can have re-imagined versions of other styles like Art Deco, Gothic or Classical but with contemporary materials and construction techniques (like WFC is with deco). Or you can have various fusion styles that can combine anywhere from a couple to numerous design cues from other styles and eras.
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