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Spectacular! Can't wait to see the rest
Updating the landmark red brick Gooderham flat iron at Front and Wellington with a red brick podium building here was a clever conceit, and it plays off the sleek glass tower so nicely. A view terminus for the Esplanade - and, as Dane and others have pointed out, a signpost for the District as a whole. Thank goodness there's no overblown "spectacle" involved either - rather a minimalist "see through box" as MBS points out. Bravo!
Oh no, spectacle is what Clewes refers to in the recent interview with John Bentley Mays as, "the desire of the middle class to be recognized as important, with something that has an individual expression." As you've already pointed out this is "a pretty standard Clewes design".