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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
really, you don't understand how it got approved? you're the first person in this thread to express a negative view about this proposal. you're certainly entitled to your opinion, but when a community of casual architecture fans such as this one approves of a proposed design by a > 10-1 margin, i think it's pretty easy to understand how that project might have then also been favorably received by the powers that be.
besides, project approvals don't have much to do with aesthetics, just take a look at the architectural crap-topia that was built in river north over the past decade for concrete proof that the city doesn't give two shits about aesthetics when handing out project approvals.
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Casual architecture fans clamoring for something,
anything of note to discuss seem to me to apparently be far more prone to enjoying a proposal for the sake of its being there than anything else. All comments thus far have been about how good it is that there is "a building" being built there. Nothing has been said as of yet about its form.
Of course project approvals don't have much to do with aesthetics, unless of course said project resides in Reilly's ward, where he seems to take time to think about the long term impact of marquee projects before signing off.
Much of what's been built in a lot of places has been crap for the sake of building cheap. A lot of schlock has gone up around this city, but a lot of good has gone up as well. This building, as a building, simply does not fall into the latter category.
If you'd like to argue against the points I made about why I think it's bad, fine. If you'd like to refute my opinion that it looks like a giant scissor-lift, OK. But to claim that everyone here likes it except me, when I'm the first one that's sounded off on the design itself in any respect outside of referring to the base, rather than just being excited to see
something get built, is to ignore the facts.