(07-22-2021, 04:39 PM)ac3r Wrote: I asked someone indirectly involved in this project (but who works for one company involved in it) for more information on the design. I was allowed to see a few more images of much higher resolution and...yuck. If they approve this and they use this design, it's going to look like a Soviet era brutalist apartment tower.
I don't see anything remotely brutalist in the design, but perhaps you meant Khrushchyovkas, which famously have tight setbacks from the street, and commercial uses in their podiums and feature frivolous architectural flourishes like we see in this building's condo hat.