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The prize has certainly generated a good healthy debate, for which congratulations. There's no doubt some of the judging commentary come across as gratuitously vindictive, not exactly a nuanced analysis! Let's be honest it's hard to debate something as subjective as "whether a building is ugly or not" , which probably explains the heated comments on both sides. For my part I think this building has/had a lot of potential. Comments about location, size, shape and so on are missing the point - it could have been an elegant addition, but sadly the cladding spoils this tower. The use of black and the pointless randomness - in my subjective opinion they don't work.