The design has two a nice little marinas, lakefront open space with trees and a pool, and a waterfront promenade. Lop a few floors off the taller tower and the whole scheme looks like it would fit into the new East Bay Front animation quite nicely. Unlike other cities, PoMo gained little purchase hereabouts and our leading contemporary local architects are designing buildings that are clearly linked to the strong Modernist style that defines our local post-WW2 architecture. Many of them began their careers working for firms that produced that first wave of Modernist buildings in the '50s and '60s.
As adma points out, this scheme is several decades old. Had it been built, it would have joined Harbour Square as a pioneering venture to draw people to the water at a time when nobody considered living or working there; perhaps one or two of the buildings would have been converted to condo or co-op use by now. The view of the lake remains the same but our perceptions of the significance of the real estate that abuts it have changed thanks, in part, to unbuilt proposals like this - and built ones like Harbour Square.
