Comments update: Diller Scofidio + Renfro's vertically designed medical building for Columbia University has divided opinion, with some readers labelling the structure a "mess".

Vertigo: the unusual vertical layout of Diller Scofidio + Renfro's recently completed medical building in New York has come under scrutiny after Dezeen published Iwan Baan's photographs of the structure.
"That building is nuts," said regular commenter Chris MacDonald. "It's not your 'classical' proportions or forms but still looks brilliant for it!"
"It looks like a mess from a distance until you see how perfectly it is executed," wrote a user called ABruce.
But some readers disagreed. "A building shouldn't look like a mess from any angle, and this unfortunately does," hit back a user calling themselves Gues. "To me this building looks like it is 20 years too late for the whole 'OMA/Koolhaas continuous route, folding' thing, which was terribly hip in the latter half of the 1990s," wrote a user under the pseudonym of Ben Dover. Do you love or hate this building" Tell us in the comments section »

Sirius business: one of Sydney's only Brutalist buildings is at risk of demolition, following a decision by New South Wales officials not to heritage list the Sirius apartment building. Some readers jumped to its defence and shared a petition calling for the building to be saved.
"This is my favourite building in Sydney and a bea...