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Old Posted Mar 15, 2012, 7:01 AM
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Originally Posted by mousquet View Post
I take this design as a tribute to Foster's 30 St Mary Axe which is a great building when D2 appears hardly random to me, now that I'm seeing what its facade would be made of. I hope being wrong, though.
The reference to 30 St Mary Axe seems obvious when you look at the renderings, but the finished product may end up being quite different. Both buildings play on the theme of jewelry... with a serious risk of tackiness.

We'll see.