Finished Product

You may or may not remember the images I posted last year for comments on my old dead blog resulting in the final design below.Well, since then, the building has gone from this:To this:
A few little details were left out, but I'm still quite pleased.

I have to hand most of the credit to the structural and soils engineers for making it stand up and, of course, to Jonathan Stoumen for the original award-winning building design. I know that I definitely violated his aesthetic intent in using steel instead of tamarack columns, but I actually like the juxtaposition of the materials. To me, it creates a visual indication of new and old, urban and rural, pedestrian and riparian, Phallus and Yoni. Besides, I think that I also managed to improve the clumsy urban interface and inefficient internal circulation of the existing layout.