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I adamantly applaud this venture's in-depth commitment to architecture in a pure form. Yet this is crap.. Have the very last bits of joy, daring, and optimism been wrung from our profession? How did we come to rewarding such banal interventions as these? The refined expression of minimalism can be a beautiful thing, but this project isn't expressing anything other than fussing about with some irrelevant and minor detailing. This is a superficial conclusion but of course, yet if a project altogether fails at the superficial level then it still fails overall. The cult of architecture really needs to come up for air, and I think we architects can do far better than this in doing designs which aren't fundamentally unappealing.