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Originally Posted by ChiPlanner
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Looks like a late-70s university library. The widths of the bays feel a touch too wide; you don't get the verticality and rhythm like you do from, say, the Merchandise Mart. Those piers are also chunky and severely square, and there aren't any decorative mullions to balance them out. And with the inevitable highly reflective glass, it's going to be a lot of flat, matte material and reflected light (the makings of a monolith). It could turn out well when actually built, of course, but something feels off about the rendered concept.
I can't imagine that the landmarks guidelines are so onerous as to limit creative interpretations to...
... that.