I don't think we could have done it any differently and kept the same amount of space the client wanted. It is the kind of building that should have been a symbol of the city, that should appear on postcards. That won't happen. Though it may work well enough as a space to contain people and exhibits, our convention centre is not the kind of place you want to write home about. It just hurts.
Some people love it.
Some hate it. There are marvellous views of the lake to the south and the city to the north, though you'd never know it from most of the units in these buildings. These buildings manage to look cheap even from a distance, and that is something of an accomplishment. They're constructed of brick cleverly designed to read as pre-cast concrete, and have mean little windows. When we had protests about unchecked development, we would point to those buildings as something we didn't need any more of.