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I don't really like this building, but better this striking shape than another blah rectangle. Sometimes, as a friend of mine likes to say, it is more important to be interesting than to be good. The biggest weakness is that while the shape looks striking from a distance, the building sits on a huge concrete slab and some street level views are dominated by that concrete mass.
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Nicolai Ouroussoff
says this "may be the greatest work of architecture built in this century," to which I can only say that it's fortunate the century is still young.
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