Almost everything that has ever been designed as part of a wider 'utopian' planning notion of how cities should function and look are failures. This goes for all the stuff that was built as part of the 60s' Shankland Plan that was supposed to fit into the 'walkways in the sky' part of the scheme... and of course, all of the stuff that has been limited by strange ideas of how the city should now be sculpted to the heritage agenda.. all defficient..all failures to one degree or another.
The Echo/RSA complex now actually works as the new (ish) corner project reinstated the street as primary focus!
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celebrae the street, make your building relate to it and most things (even ugly buildings) actually work.
Start with the basics, framework, street pattern/grid etc... and stay with it... no extrapolating out into fancy.
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