In this week's comments update, readers are convinced that Herzog & de Meuron has designed its Museum of the 20th Century badly on purpose, to emphasise the beauty of the neighbouring Neue Nationalgalerie. 
Neighbour from hell: Herzog & de Meuron revealed updated plans for the Berlin museum, and readers agree it's no match for the Mies van der Rohe-designed Neue Nationalgalerie it will adjoin.
"What an ungainly neighbour for the elegant Mies building," said a reader going by the name Alfred Hitchcock. Chejo added: "If the idea was to make Mies' building look prettier, then they achieved it".
"Mies masterpiece will shine brighter in front of this incomprehensible hanger," commented Manuel Baena.
JMFM simply concluded: "Underwhelming".
For this reader, the winning architecture studio is clear:
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