Well,no way to argue with NYguy!..
He makes me think of a mother who refuses to look into the eyes of her one-eyed child.
The truth is that this building is half of a failure.
The exposed beams were supposed to be steel all the way to the top originally.
After,it was supposed to be only the bottom of the building.
In the end, they were built of concrete.(cost?,technical issues?). You can tell me that you like it as it is. But don't come at me with the ridiculous: "this building wasn't made great by the bracing. It is the form of this tower which makes it stand out as the great piece of art that it is."
THE PROTRUDING BRACING WAS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE DESIGN.
Could you predend NYGUY that the Hancock Tower in Chicago would be the masterpiece everybody knows if the beams were not protruding??
According to the original renderings,it felt like the tower was a living organism that contracted and stretched to the sky,like a bodybuilder who would contract his muscles, revealing his veins and is energy!
It was like the tower was in motion,while now it looks like(especiallly on the sides)a former Elite Agency model who ruined her potential by gaining weight!....SAD!!!!
The overall form of TV is magnificent but the cladding/fake steel beams are an obvious failure.
At the end,we could have a piece of art but no masterpiece.
I am done with it!..