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Originally Posted by The Rover
What a farce! They completely destroyed the most crucial architectural aspects of the design; namely, the base and the crown. Both have been severely truncated and have lost so much fine-grained articulation, thereby ruining the overall aesthetic beauty and sophistication of the tower’s architecture.
As for the crown, the beautifully tapered diamond motif and supple curve has been whittled down so much as to appear aesthetically dull and timid in comparison to the aforementioned model design, which as a whole, was so well-refined and carefully executed that I don’t think any improvements could have been made. Seeing this neutered reworking of the design is flabbergasting and deeply upsetting. Was this really necessary? Surely they could have brought the previous vision to fruition, no?
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I absolutely agree with these points, the crown has lost almost all the subtle details that made the previous iterations really soar (height itself notwithstanding). The flattening of the lattice's intersections into straight alignments, rather than the original's graceful curves, is my biggest gripe.
My work-in-progress 3D model of the crown based on the new diagrams:
Compared to one of the earlier architectural models:
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