In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a black-clad, "modernist" skyscraper completed in downtown Los Angeles by architecture studio Marmol Radziner.
The Beaudry is 695-foot-tall (212 metres) and is now the tallest residential structure in California, according to the studio. Readers were split in their reactions.
Marmol Radziner completes California's tallest residential skyscraper
"Skyscrapers are irrelevant to architecture"
Commenter Sanda Weisz deemed it "beautiful but probably too expensive for most people".
Souji was more measured in their assessment, suggesting "it looks 'sleekish' and the interiors are nice, but it doesn't make any sense".
It felt a bit too corporate for Apsco Radiales. "You come home from a day's work in an office to the rest of the day in another office," they wrote, before asking "what happened to a home"" "Horrible, dark, depressing, dated," was the unflattering assessment made by Chip Lynch. Reader Jack Woodburn agreed, calling it "yet another ugly, cold, stark monolith.
Meanwhile, Jb pronounced "skyscrapers are irrelevant to architecture".
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