Here she is, completed. This doesn't do the composition justice, but you can get an idea of how the building plays off its neighbors. The building in the left foreground, the Medical Arts, consists of a smaller tower and a taller tower - and so does the building in the right foreground, the Midwest Federal Building. All three structures have roughly the same massing. The Medical Arts building's streetside cladding is all Gothic verticality; the Midwest Federal building is a stylized version of the Medical Arts' terra cotta details. US Bancorp ties them both together - but its relentless horizontal banding is a calming hand on the insistent upward direction of its neighbors. Good idea? Bad? Well, if the USBancorp had copied the verticality of its neighbors, it might have dissipated the effect of the two older buildings. Too many fizzy bottles. As much as I would have loved to see this building be one taller tower, I've come to appreciate this design. It doesn't act taller than its neighbors, but it obviously is taller. And it has breadth, a quality neither of its neighbors really carries off with any panache. A non-Midwestern eye might read the exterior as a monochromatic yawn, but not to me; like its neighbors, it has the palette of winter.