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This building is a Piece of $hit in typical French fashion.
ouch, that's really harsh. I think we've got some cool and beautiful things around here, and moreover, the city is diverse and coherent like any major cities in the world, it has its own mood and that mood is pretty good. come and i'll pay you a visit. hope you're not from las vegas at least to say such things
plus, it's the vision of a US "famous" architect, not a french creation, and i'm pretty sure if paris would not take it, some us cities with tiny skyline would gladdly have it (pittsburgh, KC, philly, denver, etc....).
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On opening day they can play Oxygene by Jean Michael Jarre and really weird out.
saddly, that's possibly true... but he also performed in many chinese skyline landscapes and even in the US (houston and/or dallas if i remember correctly)... don't ask me why but some people all around the world think its creations are kind of post-futuristic and fit skylines...
back to the thread, few people seems to explain why they love it or hate it, they rather do short formal comments of love or hate - especially on the last pages.
for me it's simply too human body shaped. i like organic structure up to a certain level, or in a certain way, but here it doesn't work for me. for instance in the photo below i can't help but see a dog pet sitting its head up waiting for a tap or a sugar...
and in the following one, i feel like trying to look at my granma panties. don't ask me why but it looks like an old woman to me.
and the top hairy spire, reminds me too much the towers that have been ,through times, added antennas in a total mess at their top.
and also the bottom (podium/entrances) makes me uneasy, too much of a mess for me. i like sober and clean structures, box shaped (HK IFC or former WTC) or not (the gherkin), but i like them clean. i can hardly enjoy them otherway.
so take the render below, cut the hairy top and rearrange the bottom without those improbable curbs, you can make an enlargement, but keep it symetric, the blue cladding is nice, and the part with the apparent tubular structure partially hidden by the outer cladding is nice. that'll do it for me.
and as i stated in a previous post, i guess building such a structure significantly rise costs over a more conventionnal shape, and i think it's a waste of money. may be two towers could be built for the price of that one.
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