[QUOTE=tworivers;8479103]This is proof in the pudding of how culturally backwards this city is, despite its mythology. Have these people seriously never been to Europe, where it's perfectly normal to place contemporary buildings-of-the-times adjacent to buildings-of-previous-times?
Agree 100%. What is the HLC talking about vis-a-vis "context" here? You've got a myriad of contemporary buildings going up within blocks of the Weatherly, including a veritable cornucopia of glass boxes courtesy of W.PA. And who knows, maybe the Weatherly was the "Yard" of its day... the object of scorn and ridicule for not living up to the high expectations as promised in the renderings.
Gee, I'd love to be around 100 years from now when these guys will force developers to build something that conforms to 7 SE Stark, Cosmo in the Pearl... the Black Box downtown...