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Old Posted May 2, 2018, 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Kris22 View Post
For those of you being defensive of the beams, it's not like this criticism is unfounded when renderings like this were posted years ago in this thread and would have informed my expectations of this building:




You can see the difference between the diagonal beams being in front of/on top of the window grid vs being level with or "under" the window grid like in this photo:



^^^On the right hand side you can't even see the diagonal beams because they are flush with the glass. Had they been protruding, they would be visible and dramatic from all angles.



And yes, in my opinion one is "far" more striking than the other.
I can why you're let down based on that rendering. Could part of it be the glass is super clear in it and not in real life?