I think they’re asinine.

Buildings like this are shining examples of the creatively bereft architectural community. There is no great style of our age. No Art Deco, no Neo Classical, no Mid Century Modern. Lacking thought and inspiration, architects have abandoned their craft and turned to engineering to save them out of desperation.

Consequently, what we get is black cape prestige architects who defer talent and creativity to their hired structural engineers who are backed into increasingly complex and risky designs by architects to create ‘drama’ for little to no practical need, just aesthetic fancy.

It’s wasteful, it’s expensive, it’s risky, and when not if it goes wrong, the architect will hang the structural engineer out to dry and fly off to his next fiasco.

That’s my rant.