Lol. I’d say this forum is very open minded and embraces new ideas. While this building is indeed “thought provoking”, the thoughts it’s provoking are mostly negative. And what’s with pointing out the Eiffel Tower as a defense. It’s a hunk of junk. In my sole opinion, of course.
The new drone rules are way more flexible, but the videos downtown including the West Village, and of the Hub are likely in violation of federal rules unless our friend looked into it far more than I would expect most people to do. That being said, not being reckless, and flying proximate to buildings without getting much higher than them, I can't see much risk of enforcement. Edit: launching a drone on one of the central quads would likely lead to a quick visit by campus security.
If they had tried to be even more random, I think it would be more interesting. As it stands, even from across the valley in Strathcona, it looks wrong. Violating our internal rules for aesthetics - if you're going to do it, you have to do it enough to force the brain to not try to fix it imo. This building is in the uncanny valley of that spectrum, and I suspect will always be slightly unsettling, and never settle into an experimental violation of norms.
I agree, looks very sharp, the roof edge is crisp!
