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Originally Posted by Trans Canada
Not a big fan of this one. It isn't impressive for anything other than height (the design is very bland) and, unfortunately, it puts the once-impressive Jin Mao and World Financial Center in its shadow. Those towers are both great pieces of architecture (particularly Jin Mao) and it's a shame that they are no longer the centrepieces of the Shanghai skyline.
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Of course, you don't have to like it, but stating that it is very bland?????? (which BTW, seems one of the favorite adjectives in this and SSC forums, every time I read it, is like
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The forms of the building are simple yet powerful, in contrast with Jin Mao, that looks like it's trying to hard, IMO. This one is also pretty elegant with all the slightly curved shapes (and I don't usually care about curved buildings)
It also has that double skin feature, I don't remember another building that have that, in the way this building has it. If the spaces created between the two layers aren't impressive, I don't know what it is...