[Rizzo]

"ribbed granite and glass." Certainly doesn't read like that in the renderings. The description sounds good, but the renderings make it out to look like a parking garage clad in vertical metal panels. Conceptual as they may be, they still need to tell a better story

The ground floor transparency needs to double in height too. Notice the surrounding buildings? The datum line is much higher. The building feels out of place...almost reclusive in a way from the surrounding neighborhood despite the prominent location.

I can agree the design doesn't have to be over the top. But it should be visually energizing. The building needs to create a climatic termination on St Marks, not one that is dull and blank