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RE the Strata Tower - while the apartments at the "corners" may have more than one aspect, the infills between appear to have neither another aspect nor another level.

This kind of thinking has been frowned upon in Dublin for several few years now - dual aspect apartments or multi-level apartments were sought to increase internal amenity.

I agree with the previous poster that the architecture seems to be subject to component design - I vew this as a natural consequence of the improved tools for visualization offices can afford today allied to the lack of archtiectural training in those using them.

You're getting a play on forms and technology, not a working through of a tested and appropriate concept from plan to section to form, pulling the whole thing together.

As a result we get sexy sales videos and 3D views, but ultimately less satisfying architecture, divorced from its surroundings, towering, an alien form, anti-social in its relationship with the inhabitants and the cityscape.

The logical end of the Lloyds experiment in design I suppose.