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Originally Posted by Mr Downtown
^It's not about Stern being from New York. It's because he knows his craft very, very, well. He's not some kid looking at picture books and trying to figure out how the details of a historic skyscraper worked. I think some of you are being misled by a gauzy, indistinct rendering, and thus projecting your own fears of faux historicism onto this building. I have every confidence this will be as well-composed and nicely detailed as NBC Tower.
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NBC Tower is a limestone veneer, not precast and that's the difference. The quality of material makes a big difference.
Does Stern know his craft? Debatable. What he needs to learn is Chicago and it's history of great architecture and design. The setting is just as important.
Maybe he should look at pictures book to see how details work in historic skyscrapers, because they did work and when it comes to recent examples of retro-postmodernism, those details are lacking or disjointed.