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Originally Posted by Briguy
My guess is that’s how it’s done in Paris, and every architect secretly wants to Paris-ify their city.
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Or the trend was born out of a need to justify decisions to irrational NIMBYs. Somehow being contextual has become the only way to keep their complaints at bay. Instead of, say, good design.
That said, I still think this building does contextualism well. Though it's probably the activated walkway that really pushes it over the edge. They could have done the massing better perhaps. Option 3 in their massing studies would have worked pretty well, perhaps a little better from a purely aesthetic POV.