I don't hate it, but don't like it as much as I thought I would based on the renders, even if it is pretty true to them. I like the setbacks and how they cascade up to one side, the use of terra cotta, and the neo-Art Deco elements, but I think adding in the curved balconies tries to bring in an element of Streamline Moderne that just doesn't work. And the finish on the darker portion of the crown feels kind of cheap. The massing works, it just feels out of place materials-wise. Overall, though, I like it more than I hate it. And it complements its more modern neighbor, which has much more cohesive finishes.
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"Then each time Fleetwood would be not so much overcome by remorse as bedazzled at having been shown the secret backlands of wealth, and how sooner or later it depended on some act of murder, seldom limited to once."
Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
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