Yeah, it's a case of Queen Ashbridge being on my mind. 17 stories sounded like a significant height when announced and it ended up being one of the least objectionable aspects of the development, unless you count the moderate wind tunnel the building generates at its northwest corner (the one...
People will endure every form of design abuse except height, which is the one thing they seem able to wrap their imaginations around. But they (or we, because I do this too) imagine wrong. Height is much less intrusive when built compared to how it's imagined.