[easy as pie]

really looks like the result of a first year architect's charrette. like cheng is a really uninaginative architect, but this one looks like he must have handed it off to his teenaged son. and that arch building is a tour de force of decontextualized design bordering on anomie - impressively bad design, impressively poor relationship to site and locale, impressively arrogant and anti-popular stand viz the broad consensus on the form the city ought to take.

my guess is that if this is anything like the final proposal, this will, again very impressively, meet such virulently hostile opposition during the approvals process that the entire project will be reworked.