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Originally Posted by Syndic
A $400 million piece of garbage? You're either looking at it wrong or you're engaging in some pretty strong hyperbole.
How in the world does this look like Eastern Europe or industrial China to you?
It sounds like most of the criticisms are the result of the design program they used to create the rendering, but remember that The Bowie's renderings were kind of cheap-looking, too, and it has come out looking much different than we expected.
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The Bowie's renderings were awesome and classy. It has come out looking absolutely awful compared to the renderings, but still decent.
As for this project, the designs are a bunch of architectural flourishes that have no business being put together on the same building. All of the things that you circled (save for the retail, which has nothing to do at all with the architectural style) are decent, but when you consider that they're all radically different things it creates this context where everything is just jarring to the eye. Can't they find a theme and stick to it? There's just no overarching concept other than "Sim City Crap". Buildings like Frost, the Fairmont (prospectively, at least), and the W look as good as they do because they are cohesive concepts. This is a bunch of mish mash concepts thrown together haphazardly.
Also, some of the things you circles are actually quite nasty. The two dark blue sections are absolutely awful. Glass that color
never turns out well in practice. It always ends up looking cheap as hell and dated, just the same way that gold glass looks.
And no, I'm not looking at the renderings wrong. I think that describes your take on them much better than it does mine.